Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The European Council is an institution of the European Union. It comprises the heads of state or heads of government of the EU member states, along with the council's own President and the President of the European Commission. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy takes part in its meetings. The European Council was established as an informal body in 1975; it became an official EU institution in 2009 when the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force.While the European Council has no formal legislative power, it is charged under the Treaty of Lisbon with defining "the general political directions and priorities" of the Union. It is thus the Union's strategic (and crisis solving) body, acting as the collective presidency of the EU.The meetings of the European Council, commonly referred to as EU summits, are chaired by its president and take place at least twice every six months; usually in the Justus Lipsius building, the headquarters of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The TEU provides that "decisions of the European Council shall be taken by consensus" and also that the "Council shall act by a qualified majority except where the Treaties provide otherwise." In this case, qualified majority is specified further in Article 16(4) of the TEU:As from 1 November 2014, a qualified majority shall be defined as at least 55 % of the members of the Council, comprising at least fifteen of them and representing Member States comprising at least 65 % of the population of the Union.A blocking minority must include at least four Council members, failing which the qualified majority shall be deemed attained.The current president of the European Council is Herman Van Rompuy.. }
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- European_Council abstract "The European Council is an institution of the European Union. It comprises the heads of state or heads of government of the EU member states, along with the council's own President and the President of the European Commission. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy takes part in its meetings. The European Council was established as an informal body in 1975; it became an official EU institution in 2009 when the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force.While the European Council has no formal legislative power, it is charged under the Treaty of Lisbon with defining "the general political directions and priorities" of the Union. It is thus the Union's strategic (and crisis solving) body, acting as the collective presidency of the EU.The meetings of the European Council, commonly referred to as EU summits, are chaired by its president and take place at least twice every six months; usually in the Justus Lipsius building, the headquarters of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. The TEU provides that "decisions of the European Council shall be taken by consensus" and also that the "Council shall act by a qualified majority except where the Treaties provide otherwise." In this case, qualified majority is specified further in Article 16(4) of the TEU:As from 1 November 2014, a qualified majority shall be defined as at least 55 % of the members of the Council, comprising at least fifteen of them and representing Member States comprising at least 65 % of the population of the Union.A blocking minority must include at least four Council members, failing which the qualified majority shall be deemed attained.The current president of the European Council is Herman Van Rompuy.".