", "CONFERENCE DE PRESSE DU PRESIDENT DE LA REPUBLIQUE, M. NICOLAS SARKOZY", "Belgian PM Van Rompuy is named as new EU president". With some in the Council suggesting a staff of up to 60, the Committee on Constitutional Affairs has indicated it may drop the gentlemen's agreement that Parliament and Council will not interfere in each other's budget.[30]. Since the beginning of the 1990s, foreign and security policy has been an important item at the European Council’s summit meetings. Before the Lisbon Treaty came into force in 2009, this was the only procedure for treaty revision. With the Lisbon Treaty, the new office of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy became an additional element proposing and implementing foreign policy on behalf of the European Council. After two and a half years of institutional stalemate, the European Council of 21 and 22 June 2007 adopted a detailed mandate for an intergovernmental conference leading to the signature on 13 December 2007 of the Lisbon Treaty, which entered into force on 1 December 2009 (1.1.5). As an outgrowth of the Council of the EU, the European Council had previously followed the same Presidency, rotating between each member state. The President is elected for a term of two years. Article 7(2) of the TEU gives the European Council the power to initiate the procedure suspending the rights of a Member State as a result of a serious breach of the EU’s principles, subject to the consent of the European Parliament. However, Parliament is also able to exercise some informal influence through the presence of its President at European Council meetings and pre-European Council meetings of the party leaders in their respective European political families, as well as through the resolutions it adopts on items on the agenda for meetings, on the outcome of meetings and on the formal reports submitted by the European Council. The first of these ‘European summits’ took place in Paris in 1961 and they have become more frequent since 1969. [11] One body of thought was that the president would stick to the administrative role as outlined by the treaty, a standard bearer who would simply chair meetings and ensure the smooth running of the body and its policies. The President of the European Council Charles Michel paid his respects to Daphne Caruana Galizia at the site of her assassination in Bidnija on Thursday. Appointed by: national leaders (heads of state or government of EU countries), with the approval of the European … The Copenhagen European Council (12 and 13 December 2002) decided on the accession on 1 May 2004 of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. The current President is Filippo Donati, a lay-member of the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura of Italy. [7] Additionally, some scholars argue that the move, when coupled with the formalisation of the European Council in the Lisbon Treaty, represents an institutionalisation of an ad hoc EU organ that had its origins in Luxembourg compromise, with national leaders reasserting their dominance as the EU's "supreme political authority". Appointments, as well as the removal of incumbents, require a double majority support in the European Council. The President of the European Council is elected by the European Council by a qualified majority for a once-renewable term of two and a half years. The Helsinki European Council (December 1999) convened the intergovernmental conference in preparation for the Treaty of Nice. For example:[1], As such, the European Council had already existed before it gained the status as an institution of the European Union with the entering into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, but even after it had been mentioned in the treaties (since the Single European Act) it could only take political decisions, not formal legal acts. These meetings were at first informal, prior to the UK’s formal notification of withdrawal from the EU under Article 50 of the TEU in March 2017. The President convenes and chairs all meetings of the ENCJ organs. It is composed of 22 members, all eminent scientists and scholars, who represent the scientific community in Europe. It is now called the ‘ordinary revision procedure’. On 19 November 2009, the European Council agreed that its first president under the Lisbon Treaty would be Herman Van Rompuy (European People's Party). Interpreters are also required for meetings as members are permitted to speak in their own languages. Term: December 2019 - October 2024. Now the leader of the Council Presidency country can still act as president when the permanent president is absent. A. [1][7], Some meetings of the European Council—and, before the European Council was formalised, meetings of the heads of government—are seen by some as turning points in the history of the European Union. [23] The logistical, environmental, financial and security arrangements of hosting large summits are usually cited as the primary factors in the decision by EU leaders to move towards a permanent seat for the European Council. [citation needed], On 19 November 2009, Herman Van Rompuy, at that time Prime Minister of Belgium, was appointed the first full-time president of the European Council. Journal of European Integration 38 no.6, pp.719-736. Meetings in subsequent years further specified the criteria for admission and the institutional reforms required beforehand. Meeting in Brussels on 12 December 2003, the European Council approved the European Security Strategy. The Lisbon Treaty established the European Council as an institution of the Union and endowed it with a long-term presidency. Under Article 13 of the TEU, the European Council forms part of the ‘single institutional framework’ of the Union. In the Paris European summit of February 1974, it was decided that these meetings of Heads of State or Government should henceforth be held on a regular basis under the name of ‘European Council’, which would be able to adopt a general approach to the problems of European integration and ensure that EU activities were properly coordinated. At first only a minimum of two meetings per year were required, which resulted in an average of three meetings per year being held for the 1975–1995 period. For example, the president may be an MEP, or more significantly the Commission president (who already sits in the European Council).

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