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The serial summit meeting (usually held three times a year) of the European Union. Though its roots go back to European summits at the beginning of the 1960s, the Council began to meet informally in its current format in 1975 and it was regularized by the Single European Act in 1986. The president of the European Commission also attends, as do foreign ministers and – when appropriate – economic and finance ministers. The chief functions of the Council are to provide general political guidelines for the Union and resolve deadlocks which have developed at lower levels, especially in the Council of Ministers. Decisions, which only occasionally are arrived at by voting, are presented as ‘conclusions of the Presidency’ and, where detailed agreements on points of substance are concerned, declarations. |
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