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welcome to the Council of the European Union also known as the Council of Ministers or simply as the Council and definitely not to be confused with the European Council all the Council of Europe confused yet well so is everybody else the council functions as the representation of the governments of the Member States and consists of 28 ministers one from each member state as each country has multiple ministers each with its own portfolio the council while officially a single entity meets in 10 different compositions depending on the subject being discussed for example all national ministers responsible for agriculture and fishery policy come together in the EU s agriculture and fishery Council and here we have an EU complication as some council configurations encompass the portfolio of multiple national ministers in case of some EU kinds of configurations some member states sent more than one minister each of these councils is chaired by the minister whose country holds two rotating council presidency but the EU wouldn't be itself if there wasn't an exception by discussing Foreign Affairs the counts was always chaired by the High Representative of the EU the council makes decisions by qualified majority which means that to make a decision it must be supported by the ministers of 55% of the countries representing at least 65% of the EU population but this qualified majority can force its will on a protesting minority for countries representing at least 35% of the population can block a decision by voting against it and we have another exception when making decisions on one of these subjects qualified majority is not enough but instead unanimity is needed why because these are subjects that lie at the heart of state sovereignty and member states prefer to keep these matters on an intergovernmental level rather than handing these powers over to EU in practice however the council tries to read you a limite not only on these subjects but also on subjects that only require a qualified majority as a result that tend to be very few votes against or abstentions so if your national minister says Brussels to sign it remember they were there and they had a vote due to the sharing of the legislative and budgetary powers with Parliament the decision only passes when Parliament also signs off on it except in the case of the subjects mentioned before but the council must decide with unanimity in those cases Parliament's approval is not needed in all this the ministers who sit in the council are supported by the General Secretariat and a committee of permanent representatives the General Secretariat functions as a general supporting staff preparing meetings drafting reports agendas and so on they are civil servants of the EU and do not represent an individual member state court pair and contrast is composed of representatives from the states themselves such as ambassadors and national civil servants they prepare the work of the ministers taking seat in the council and when a council shares power with Parliament or a pair works with them so what is it the cancer really does with the support of Cory bear and the General Secretariat there are a few main tasks the council is responsible for all proposals for new EU law must be checked by the council the counts may then choose to approve amend or reject it as such two counts who can stop almost every new law from being implemented like new legislation the EU budget must be approved by the council before money can be spent while this power is shared with Parliament they don't really share it fairly if the council and Parliament can seem to agree Parliament can cast the deciding vote effectively disregarded the counters opinion beside its normal legal instruments the council also decides on the e use common foreign and security policy or CF SP which the high representative then carries out the council decides on leading principles and guidelines for the CF SP as well as on common strategies that the EU will follow based on these leading principles and guidelines the council then adopts joint actions aimed at specific situations where the EU actions are deemed necessary and it adopts common positions which cover more general geographical and thematical areas and form general guidelines that the member states must conform to the council consists of usually 28 but sometimes more national ministers each working for and representing their own country depending on the topic disgusts the ministers making up the council change the ministers are supported both by EU and national civil servants just like Parliament the council votes on new laws as well as the EU budget to find out more about it other institutions the history of the EU and other subjects please check out our playlists and subscribe to our Channel you