European Council
European Council
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The European Council (Article 15 Teu)
Content about European Council from the publication "The ABC of European Union law" (2010, European Union) by Klaus-Dieter Borchardt.
The European Council grew out of the summit conferences of EU Heads of State or Government. At the Paris Summit in December 1974 it was decided that meetings should be held three times a year and described as the European Council. Since then, the European Council has become an independent body of the European Union (Article 13 TEU).
Context of European Council in the European Union
The Heads of State or Government and the President of the European Commission meet at least twice every half a year in this context. When the questions under discussion so demand, the Members of the European Council can decide to seek the support of a Minister and, in the case of the President of the Commission, of one Member of the European Commission to assist them in their work (Article 15(3) TEU).
More about European Council in the European Union
The Treaty of Lisbon created the office of President of the European Council (4). The President of the European Council, unlike the Presidency up to now, has a European mandate, not a national one, running for two and a half years on a full-time basis. The person appointed President should be an outstanding personality, selected by qualified-majority voting of the Members of the European Council. Re-election is possible once. The President's tasks comprise the preparation and follow-up of European Council meetings and representing the EU at international summits in the area of foreign and security policy.
Other Aspects
The actual function of the European Council itself is to establish the general policy guidelines for EU action. It does so by taking basic policy decisions and issuing instructions and guidelines to the Council or the European Commission. The European Council has in this way directed work on economic and monetary union, the European Monetary System, direct elections to Parliament and a number of accession issues.
Definition of European Council
In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of European Council : A body consisting of the heads of government of the member states of the European Union. It is not a formal organ of the EU (Compare Council of the European Union), but meets three times a year to consider major developments of policy. It inspired, for example, the *European Monetary System.
Description of European Council
The Concise Publication of the European Union describes european council in the following terms: [1] The European Council (not to be confused with the Council of Ministers) refers to the twice-yearly, or occasionally more frequent, summit meetings of EUheads of government (plus the directly elected presidents of France and Finland) and the president of the Commission. It is not an official EU institution. Although there had previously been occasional summit meetings, these were not put on a regular footing until 1974. Since then, the European Council has evolved into the EU's ultimate decision-taking body, resolving problems that have proved intractable at lower levels and serving as the arbiter, and sometimes the engine, of the political and constitutional agenda.
The meetings, which are also attended by foreign ministers and oneCommission vice-president (and, when appropriate, by finance ministers), are intended to be small, grand and informal, in settings which encourage the formulation of strategy and facilitate the bartering of treasured national objectives. The decisions of the European Council are normally expressed as Conclusions or Declarations, having no status in law but creating the framework for Community legislation or common action among the member states. The European Council has been responsible for launching or approving virtually every significant European policy since its inauguration, including the Single European Act, the Treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam, the reunification of Germany, the accession of new states, the selection of countries for the single currency and the co-ordination of foreign policy and defence (see more in this European publication). With their red carpets and motorcades, and with the media in close attendance, the meetings offer irresistible opportunities for eye-catching initiatives and contribute by their very existence to the momentum of European integration.
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Based on the book "A Concise Publication of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein", by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
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