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List of European Councils, by presidency, date, and location.

Contents 1 Early meetings 2 Formal Council meetings 3 Details 3.1 Cologne 1999 3.2 Laken 2001 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Early meetings

The first Councils were held in February and July 1961 (in Paris and Bonn respectively). They were informal summits of the leaders of the European Community, the first influential summit was held in 1969 and the Hague summit of 1969 reached an agreement on the admittance of the United Kingdom into the Community and initiated foreign policy cooperation (European Political Cooperation) The summits were only formalised in 1974, at the December summit in Paris, following a proposal from then-French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.^[1][2]

[edit] Formal Council meetings

Formal Council meetings of the Communities

Year	Start date	End date	Venue	President	Notes
1975	10 March	11 March	Dublin	Liam Cosgrave	[2] Inaugural formal Council
	16 July	17 July	Brussels	Aldo Moro	[3]
	1 December	2 December	Rome	Aldo Moro	[4]
1976	1 April	2 April	Luxembourg	Gaston Thorn	[5]
	12 July	13 July	Brussels	Joop den Uyl	[6]
	29 November	30 November	The Hague	Joop den Uyl	[7]
1977	25 March	27 March?	Rome	James Callaghan	[8]
	29 June	30 June	London	James Callaghan	[9]
	5 December	6 December	Brussels	Leo Tindemans	[10]
1978	7 April	8 April	Copenhagen	Anker Jørgensen	[11]
	6 July	7 July	Bremen	Helmut Schmidt	[12]
	4 December	5 December	Brussels	Helmut Schmidt	[13]
1979	12 March	13 March	Paris	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	[14]
	21 June	22 June	Strasbourg	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	[15]
	29 November	30 November	Dublin	Jack Lynch	[16]
1980	17 April	18 April	Luxembourg	Francesco Cossiga	[17]
	12 June	13 June	Venice	Francesco Cossiga	[18]
	1 December	2 December	Luxembourg	Pierre Werner	[19]
1981	23 March	24 March	Maastricht	Dries van Agt	[20]
	29 June	30 June	Luxembourg	Dries van Agt	[21]
	26 November	27 November	London	Margaret Thatcher	[22]
1982	29 March	30 March	Brussels	Wilfried Martens	[23]
	28 June	29 June	Brussels	Wilfried Martens	[24]
	3 December	4 December	Copenhagen	Poul Schlüter	[25]
1983	21 March	22 March	Brussels	Helmut Kohl	[26]
	17 June	19 June	Stuttgart	Helmut Kohl	[27]
	4 December	6 December	Athens	Andreas Papandreou	[28]
1984	19 March	20 March	Brussels	François Mitterrand	[29]
	25 June	26 June	Fontainebleau	François Mitterrand	[30] British rebate agreed
	3 December	4 December	Dublin	Garret FitzGerald	[31]
1985	29 March	30 March	Brussels	Bettino Craxi	[32] Initiated the IGC leading to the Single European Act
	28 June	29 June	Milan	Bettino Craxi	[33]
	2 December	3 December	Luxembourg	Jacques Santer	[34]
1986	26 June	27 June	The Hague	Ruud Lubbers	[35]
	5 December	6 December	London	Margaret Thatcher	[36]
1987	29 June	30 June	Brussels	Wilfried Martens	[37]
	4 December	5 December	Copenhagen	Poul Schlüter	[38]
1988	11 February	13 February	Brussels	Helmut Kohl	[39]
	27 June	28 June	Hanover	Helmut Kohl	[40]
	2 December	3 December	Rhodes	Andreas Papandreou	[41]
1989	26 June	27 June	Madrid	Felipe González	[42]
	18 November		Paris	François Mitterrand	[43] (Informal)
	8 December	9 December	Strasbourg	François Mitterrand	[44]
1990	28 April		Dublin	Charles Haughey	[45]
	25 June	26 June	Dublin	Charles Haughey	[46]
	27 October	28 October	Rome	Giulio Andreotti	[47]
	14 December	15 December	Rome	Giulio Andreotti	[48]
1991	8 April		Luxembourg	Jacques Santer	[49]
	28 June	29 June	Luxembourg	Jacques Santer	[50]
	9 December	10 December	Maastricht	Ruud Lubbers	[51] Signing of the Treaty of Maastricht
1992	27 June		Lisbon	Aníbal Cavaco Silva	[52]
	16 October		Birmingham	John Major	[53]
	11 December	12 December	Edinburgh	John Major	[54]
1993	21 June	22 June	Copenhagen	Poul Nyrup Rasmussen	[55] Copenhagen criteria agreed.
	29 October		Brussels	Jean-Luc Dehaene	[56]

Formal Council meetings of the European Union (1993 to 2004)

Year	Start date	End date	Venue	President	Notes
1993	10 December	11 December	Brussels	Jean-Luc Dehaene	[57]
1994	24 June	25 June	Corfu	Andreas Papandreou	[58] Signing of the Accession Treaty of Austria, Finland, Sweden and Norway (Norway did not ratify).
	9 December	10 December	Essen	Helmut Kohl	[59]
1995	26 June	27 June	Cannes	Jacques Chirac	[60]
	15 December	16 December	Madrid	Felipe González	[61]
1996	29 March	30 March	Turin	Lamberto Dini
	21 June	22 June	Florence	Romano Prodi
	13 December	14 December	Dublin	John Bruton
1997	16 June	17 June	Amsterdam	Wim Kok	Signed Treaty of Amsterdam
	20 November	21 November	Luxembourg	Jean-Claude Juncker	Special council on Employment
	12 December	13 December	Luxembourg	Jean-Claude Juncker
1998	3 May		Brussels	Tony Blair	Special Council on the Euro decides the 11 states which would enter the third stage of EMU.
	15 June	16 June	Cardiff	Tony Blair
	11 December	12 December	Vienna	Viktor Klima
1999	25 March	26 March	Berlin	Gerhard Schröder
	3 June	4 June	Cologne	Gerhard Schröder	Details below table
	15 October	16 October	Tampere	Paavo Lipponen	Agreement on institutional reform
	10 December	11 December	Helsinki	Paavo Lipponen
2000	23 March	24 March	Lisbon	António Guterres	Agreed Lisbon Strategy
	19 June	20 June	Santa Maria da Feira	António Guterres	Agreement to allow entry of Greece to the Eurozone.
	13 October	14 October	Biarritz	Jacques Chirac	Informal European council
	7 December	9 December	Nice	Jacques Chirac	Signed Treaty of Nice
2001	23 March	24 March	Stockholm	Göran Persson
	15 June	16 June	Gothenburg	Göran Persson	Enlargement, sustainable development, economic growth and structural reform issues in addition to an EU-US summit.
	21 September		Brussels	Guy Verhofstadt	Emergency council - Terrorism
	19 October		Ghent	Guy Verhofstadt	Informal council
	14 December	15 December	Laken	Guy Verhofstadt	Details below table
2002	15 March	16 March	Barcelona	José María Aznar López
	21 June	22 June	Seville	José María Aznar López	Decided to reorganise the Council formations in order to achieve greater focus and efficiency
	24 October	25 October	Brussels	Anders Fogh Rasmussen
	12 December	13 December	Copenhagen	Anders Fogh Rasmussen
2003	17 February		Brussels	Costas Simitis	Extraordinary council - Iraq
	20 March	21 March	Brussels	Costas Simitis
	16 April	17 April	Athens	Costas Simitis	Informal council - Signing of the Treaty of Accession 2003
	20 June		Thessaloniki	Costas Simitis
	4 October		Rome	Silvio Berlusconi	Extraordinary council to begin IGC on EU Constitution
	16 October	17 October	Brussels	Silvio Berlusconi
	12 December	13 December	Brussels	Silvio Berlusconi
2004	25 March	26 March	Brussels	Bertie Ahern

Formal Council meetings following the 2004 Enlargement, 2004 to present

Year	Start date	End date	Venue	President	Notes
2004	17 June	18 June	Brussels	Bertie Ahern
	4 November	5 November	Brussels	Jan Peter Balkenende
	16 December	17 December	Brussels	Jan Peter Balkenende
2005	22 March	23 March	Brussels	Jean-Claude Juncker
	16 June	17 June	Brussels	Jean-Claude Juncker
	27 October		Hampton Court	Tony Blair	Informal council on globalisation
	15 December	16 December	Brussels	Tony Blair
2006	23 March	24 March	Brussels	Wolfgang Schüssel
	15 June	16 June	Brussels	Wolfgang Schüssel	Agreement to allow entry of Slovenia to the Eurozone
	20 October		Lahti	Matti Vanhanen	Informal, meeting with Vladimir Putin, held in Sibelius Hall
	14 December	15 December	Brussels	Matti Vanhanen
2007	8 March	9 March	Brussels	Angela Merkel
	21 June	22 June	Brussels	Angela Merkel	Agreement on basis for Reform Treaty. Agreement to allow entry of Malta and Cyprus to the Eurozone.
	18 October	19 October	Lisbon	José Sócrates	Informal. Agreement reached on the Reform Treaty. Also discussed climate change and the US economic crisis[3]
	14 December		Brussels	José Sócrates	Signature of Reform Treaty in Lisbon on 13/12, European Council in Brussels the next day.
2008	13 March	14 March	Brussels	Janez Janša	Agreed timeframe and principles of energy/climate change policy.
	19 June	20 June	Brussels	Janez Janša
	13 July	14 July	Brussels	Bernard Kouchner
		1 September	Brussels	Bernard Kouchner	Extraordinary summit on EU-Russia relations (Georgia crisis)[4]
	22 October	23 October	Brussels	Bernard Kouchner
		7 November	Brussels	Bernard Kouchner	Extraordinary summit on the global financial crisis
2009	1 March		Brussels	Karel Schwarzenberg	Extraordinary summit on the global financial crisis
	19 March	20 March	Brussels	Karel Schwarzenberg
	18 June	19 June	Brussels	Jan Kohout

[edit] Details

[edit] Cologne 1999

The European Council met in Cologne on June 3-4 1999 to consider issues after the Treaty of Amsterdam came into force. Romano Prodi presented his plan for the future Commission's work and reform program. The Council called for an EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

The Council designated Javier Solana for the post of Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union (with Pierre de Boissieu as his deputy) and High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). It decided on a common policy on Russia (first use of the CFSP). Adopted the declaration on Kosovo. In relation to the European Security and Defence Policy, a major element of the CFSP, the council declared that the EU "must have the capacity for autonomous action, backed up by credible military forces, the means to decide to use them, and a readiness to do so, in order to respond to international crises without prejudice to actions by NATO." (Declared in St Malo by France and Great Britain)

[edit] Laken 2001

The Laken European Council was held at the royal palace at Laken, Belgium on 14-15 December 2001.

The main matters the Laken European Council dealt with were: new measures in the area of Justice and Home Affairs: the European arrest warrant, a common definition of terrorism, and EUROJUST; the seats of 10 new EU agencies -- after hours of disagreement, the European Council failed to reach an agreement and decided to leave the decision until next year; the impending introduction of Euro cash (the European Council met with the Finance ministers to consider this); the progress of EU enlargement; the adoption of the Laken Declaration on the Future of Europe, establishing the European Convention, to be presided over with former President of France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as President of the Convention, and former Italian Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene as Vice-Presidents. The Convention was tasked with drafting the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, and would have about 60 members, drawn from national governments, national Parliamentarians, the European Parliament, and the European Commission, and include representatives from the candidate countries. The declaration reviews the progress of European integration over the last fifty years, tracing it back to its origins in the horrors of World War II, and poses a number of questions to be answered by the Convention.^[5][6]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Presidency of the Council of the European Union

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