European Council

This page highlights some of the current parliamentary material available on the European Council. This includes select committee reports, briefing papers on current legislation and other subjects produced by the parliamentary research services, and the latest Early Day Motions put down by MPs.

Standard Notes

Date	Description
26.02.2013	European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL] 2012-13: Committee Stage Report
	The European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL] 2012-13 seeks to approve three EU draft decisions before the UK Government can approve their adoption in the EU Council.
11.12.2012	Recent EU Treaty Amendments and UK Ratification
	This Note outlines the three Treaty amendments that have been adopted under amended Article 48 TEU since the Lisbon Treaty came into force and how these amendments have been ratified in the UK.
16.11.2012	Burma: recent political and security developments
	Burma's transition has gathered pace since successful by-elections in April 2012, in which Aung San Suu Kyi's party performed strongly. This has led Western countries to significantly relax their sanctions against the country. However, the transition is not yet 'irreversible' and an upsurge of sectarian violence in western Burma since the middle of the year has been casting a shadow over the wider progress that has been made.
25.05.2012	Can Greece legally withdraw from the Euro?
	This note looks at the Treaty base for EMU and some of the informal suggestions as to how Greece might legally leave the euro and/or the EU.
03.04.2012	The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union: views in other EU Member States
	This Note looks briefly at views on the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union in the other EU Member States, the US, China and Russia.

Research Papers

Date	Description
31.01.2013	European Union (Approvals) Bill
	The European Union (Approvals) Bill (HC Bill 121) aims to approve two draft EU Council decisions and one draft decision of the European Council (the EU Heads of State and Government).
01.11.2012	European Union (Croatian Accession and Irish Protocol) Bill [Bill 76 of 2012-13]
	Croatia is expected to join the EU in July 2013. This Bill would allow the UK to ratify Croatia's accession treaty and would also cover the Protocol to the Lisbon Treaty put forward by the Irish Government.
30.08.2012	European Union (Approval of Treaty Amendment Decision) Bill
	This Bill enables the UK to ratify an amendment to Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Early Day Motions

Date	Description
26.10.2009	TONY BLAIR AND THE EU PRESIDENCY
	That this House believes that, on his record in international affairs, Tony Blair is wholly unsuitable to be President of the European Union; that the Foreign Secretary is both wrong ...