EUROPEAN COUNCIL
The European Council is the Institutions appointed to discuss the principal matters related to the European integration.
The European Council in order to the Treaty of Lisbon became an European Institution and from that moment it started to elect a President every 30 months.
The European Council is composed from all the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Countries, from the European President of the Council, from the President of the Commission and from the High Representative of the Union for the foreign business and the foreign politics.
The article 15 paragraphs 4 of TUE (Treaty of the European Union) decrees that the decisions in European Union are taking with the method of the "consensus." In some cases, anticipated from the treaties, the unanimous opinion is necessary of all the members of the Council (violation from a state member of the values ex. art. 2 TUE), to qualified majority (election European President of the Council and proposal to the European Parliament of a candidate to the presidency of the Commission) or to simple (adoption inside rule) majority.
The reunions of the European Council are held 2 times to semester to Bruxelles. The extraordinary or special European Council are held to Bruxelles to face single matters for which it is necessary to find a shared solution.
The reigning President of the European Suggestion is the Belgian Herman Van Rompuy.
The WEBSITE of the European Suggestion.
The European Council in order to the Treaty of Lisbon became an European Institution and from that moment it started to elect a President every 30 months.
The European Council is composed from all the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Countries, from the European President of the Council, from the President of the Commission and from the High Representative of the Union for the foreign business and the foreign politics.
The article 15 paragraphs 4 of TUE (Treaty of the European Union) decrees that the decisions in European Union are taking with the method of the "consensus." In some cases, anticipated from the treaties, the unanimous opinion is necessary of all the members of the Council (violation from a state member of the values ex. art. 2 TUE), to qualified majority (election European President of the Council and proposal to the European Parliament of a candidate to the presidency of the Commission) or to simple (adoption inside rule) majority.
The reunions of the European Council are held 2 times to semester to Bruxelles. The extraordinary or special European Council are held to Bruxelles to face single matters for which it is necessary to find a shared solution.
The reigning President of the European Suggestion is the Belgian Herman Van Rompuy.
The WEBSITE of the European Suggestion.