Discover what the Council is, what it does and how national ministers from each EU member state negotiate and adopt EU laws.

The Council of the European Union acts as a co-legislator in most EU policy areas. In some specific areas, the Council is the ...

The Council of the EU and the European Parliament have announced a provisional political agreement on the EU payments package. While the final texts of the third Payment Services Directive (PSD3) and ...

European Council meetings are rarely nerve-racking, but the one that took place on 18th-19th December broke the mould. Two topics were at the top of the agenda: a long-awaited free-trade agreement ...

MILAN — After over 25 years of discussions, the council representing European member states authorized the signing of a trade deal with Mercosur that could potentially create the world’s biggest ...

MILAN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The EU Council on Friday backed a negotiating position for a digital euro that includes both online and offline functionality, diverging from earlier European Parliament ...

Armenia is hosting the first European Union summit in Yerevan. The summit on Tuesday marks a deepening of ties that's been years in the making.

Also in this newsletter: The EU's trade chief to meet his Chinese counterpart in Paris amid escalating trade tensions; and ...