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The Council shall meet in different configurations, the list of which shall be adopted in accordance with Article 236 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. The General Affairs Council shall ensure consistency in the work of the different Council configurations. It shall prepare and ensure the follow-up to meetings of the ...
The European Council officially gained the status of an EU institution after the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, distinct from the Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers). Before that, the first summits of EU heads of state or government were held in February and July 1961 (in Paris and Bonn respectively).
The Council of the European Union (occasionally named "Council of Ministers", simply "The Council", also stylised in Latin as Consilium) Founded in 1957 with the historical Treaty of Rome, it is now listed as the third of the seven EU institutions; The European Council (also named "EU summits") Informally founded in 1961, officially became the ...
The Council of Europe is not to be confused with the Council of the European Union (the "Council of Ministers") or the European Council, which belong to the European Union, an entirely separate body from the Council of Europe, [107] although they have shared the same European flag and anthem since the 1980s since they both work for European ...
The Council of the European Union represents governments, the parliament represents citizens and the commission represents the European interest. [14] Essentially, the Council of the European Union, parliament or another party place a request for legislation to the commission.
The primary institutions of the European Union are the European Commission, the Council of the European Union (Council), the European Council and the European Parliament. The ordinary legislative procedure, applies to nearly all EU policy areas. Under the procedure, the Commission presents a proposal to Parliament and the council.
The EU has seven principal decision-making bodies known as the Institutions of the European Union, while the adoption of laws and coordination of EU policies is the role of the Council of the European Union which currently meets in ten different configurations.
BELGRADE (Reuters) -The European Union must be ready to admit new member states by 2030, European Council President Charles Michel told a forum in the Slovenian lake resort of Bled on Monday. "I ...