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

Contents 1 Early meetings 2 Formal Council meetings 2.1 Of the Communities, 1975 to 1984 2.2 Of the Communities, 1984 to 1993 2.3 Of the European Union, 1993 to 2004 2.4 Following the 2004 Enlargement, 2004 to present 3 Details 3.1 Cologne 1999 3.2 Laeken 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

[edit] Of the Communities, 1975 to 1984

Year	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]

[edit] Of the Communities, 1984 to 1993

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 - 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]

[edit] Of the European Union, 1993 to 2004

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. See also: Gothenburg protests
	21 September	Brussels	Guy Verhofstadt	Emergency council - Terrorism
	19 October	Ghent	Guy Verhofstadt	Informal council
	14 December - 15 December	Laeken	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

[edit] Following the 2004 Enlargement, 2004 to present

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	Jose Socrates	Informal. Agreement reached on the Reform Treaty. Also discussed climate change and the US economic crisis[3]
	14 December	Brussels	Jose Socrates	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 May - 20 May	Brussels	Janez Janša

[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] Laeken 2001

The Laeken European Council was held at the royal palace at Laeken, Belgium on 14-15 December 2001. About 80,000 people protested outside the European Council; some violence occurred, with a small group of protesters throwing Molotov cocktails at Belgian police, although there was much less violence than there was at the Gothenburg European Council in July of the same year.

The main matters the Laeken 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 Laeken 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.^[4][5]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

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