Qualified majority voting, based on the double-majority rule, is the main method used by the Council of the European Union to adopt EU legislation. Qualified majority is the voting system most ...

The Council appointed François-Louis Michaud as chairperson of the European banking authority (EBA). Mr Michaud will take up ...

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Council authorises Commission to start negotiations with UK on electricity and cohesion agreements and allows UK’s ...

Member states’ representatives greenlight signature and provisional application of EU-UK agreement on Gibraltar.

The Council formally adopted new rules to improve the efficiency of the EU External Action Guarantee under NDICI-Global ...

Council gives the final stamp to the EU talent pool, an EU platform that will help countries facing labour shortages to ...

At the end of the meeting (+/- 17.00) - Press conference with Michael Damianos, Cyprus Minister for Energy, Commerce and ...

The Council extended the framework for restrictive measures in view of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina for another ...

National customs authorities in the EU are facing increasing challenges associated with growing trade volumes, the expansion ...