Structure

Ministerial
meetings

Since 2007, the EPP has organised EPP Ministerial Meetings prior to the meetings of the Council of the EU.  These Ministerial Meetings are an offshoot of the EPP Summit and bring together EPP ministers attending the Council who are often joined by Commissioners and MEPs of the respective fields.

Functions

  • The aim of the Ministerial Meetings is to discuss and harmonise the positions of EPP ministers towards the full meeting of the Council;
  • Drafting declarations and resolutions that have been later approved by the EPP Congress and promoted as a whole in the Council.

Meetings

  • Foreign Affairs: co-chaired by Antonio TAJANI, EPP Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (IT) and David McALLISTER MEP, EPP Vice President, Chairman of the AFET Committee
  • General Affairs: co-chaired by Jessica ROSENCRANTZ, Minister for EU Affairs (SE) and Inês DOMINGOS, State Secretary for European Affairs (PT)
  • Agriculture: co-chaired by Sari ESSAYAH, Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (FI) and Herbert DORFMANN MEP, AGRI Coordinator for the EPP Group
  • Environment: co-chaired by Sari MULTALA, Minister for Environment and Climate (FI) and Wopke HOEKSTRA, EU Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth
  • Justice and Home Affairs (JHA): co-chaired by Annelies VERLINDEN, Minister of Justice (BE) and Magnus BRUNNER, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration
  • EPSCO (Health): chaired by Martine DEPREZ, Minister of Health (LU)
  • EPSCO (Labour and Social Affairs): cchaired by Ivan VIDIŠ, Secretary of State (HR)
  • Defence: co-chaired by Nikolaos PANAGIOTOPOULOS, Minister of Defence (GR) and Pål JONSON, Minister of Defence (SE)
  • ECOFIN: co-chaired by Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, and Vincent VAN PETEGHEM, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Budget (BE)
  • Trade: co-chaired by Wolfgang HATTMANNSDORFER, Minister for Economy, Energy and Tourism (AT) and Jörgen WARBORN MEP, INTA Coordinator for the EPP Group
  • Energy: co-chaired by Ebba BUSCH, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Energy, Business and Industry (SE) and Christian EHLER MEP, ITRE Coordinator for the EPP Group
  • Transport: co-chaired by Dariusz KLIMCZAK, Minister of Infrastructure (PL) and Jens GIESEKE MEP, TRAN Coordinator for the EPP Group
  • Telecommunications: co-chaired by Karsten WILDBERGER, Federal Minister for Digitalisation and State Modernisation (DE) and Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA MEP, IMCO Coordinator for the EPP Group

Council
of the EU

The Council of the European Union is the organ in charge of adopting major European decisions and acts normally along with the European Parliament, making it like that, a true law-maker of the EU.

Composition

It Is composed of a representative from each member country of the branch or field under consideration; generally a Minister or a Secretary of State. Although the Council is a single body, it meets in different configurations according to the issues being discussed. There are currently ten configurations which are:
  • General Affairs;
  • Foreign Affairs;
  • Economic and Financial Affairs;
  • Justice and Home Affairs;
  • Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs;
  • Competitiveness;
  • Transport, Telecommunications and Energy;
  • Agriculture and Fisheries and Environment;
  • Education, Youth, Culture and Sport.
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