We are expected to rubberstamp laws which have been made by the EU Council of Ministers.
So after this latest EU council, we will have several days of arguing about the technicalities of what's been agreed.
In a separate development on Monday, the leading European satellite provider Eutelsat took 19 Iranian state-run television and radio channels off air on Monday, citing "reinforced EU Council sanctions".
Voting figures for the EU Council - the grouping of ministers, according to policy area - show that the UK government voted against or abstained 38 times out of 373.
If, as I mentioned on Friday, the latest EU council has failed to solve the eurozone debt crisis in a sustainable way, what could shock eurozone governments into effective evasive action - or, in a worst case, be the explosion that causes the disintegration of the eurozone?
Mr Lochhead was delivering a ministerial statement on the outcomes from the negotiations at the EU Fisheries Council, on 21 December 2011.
Finnish Environment Minister Jan-Erik Enestam, as president of the EU Environment Council, said the rise in emissions from aviation meant that something had to be done.
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The pair discussed a need to form an integrated EU economic council, but they said an instrument such as the euro bond would be viable only in the later stages of integration.
The judges, who are also on the EU payroll, said the Council's only legal option to adjust EU salaries because of an economic downturn was under an exceptional clause in the regulations - but the Council had not taken that route.
And the EU's Council of Environment Ministers said it would try to draw up an alternate plan.
EU's Council of Ministers, though Germany's economy and population are at least a third bigger than France's.
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EU's Council of Ministers, where most big policy decisions are made and, with parliament, laws are passed.
Addressing parliament, Mr Hague said he was due to raise the matter at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.
Security teams began preparing the EU's Council of Ministers building for the summit as soon as a meeting of justice and home affairs ministers finished on Thursday afternoon.
EU's Council of Ministers, where the 15 governments are represented.
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However, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the amendments raised "concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards".
Reacting to the vote on Monday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the adopted amendments "raise concerns with respect to the principle of the rule of law, EU law and Council of Europe standards" and the Commission would "make a detailed assessment" and act accordingly.
The US, EU and UN Security Council also condemned the attacks.
The decisions by MEPs and the Council (EU governments) to create more flexibility for farm subsidies were welcomed by some farming groups, but widely criticised by environmentalists.
MPs were holding the debate ahead of the Council of EU fisheries minister who will set the so-called "Total Allowable Catch" (TAC) that fishermen are allowed to fish in the coming year.
Assuming that is right, expect to see a big increase in appeals to the one bit of the European machine where unanimity will remain the rule: the European Council, which gathers together the 27 national leaders of the EU. Under Lisbon the European Council is to gain a semi-permanent president, to replace the system of rotating presidencies.
The U.S. and EU created the Transatlantic Economic Council in 2007 to promote increased commercial cooperation.
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Relations have been frosty between the United States and several EU nations - notably Security Council members France and Germany - since a bitter row erupted over the US drive to oust Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
The debate was held following a summit on 8 December 2009 in Brussels by the EU's Foreign Affairs Council during which ministers adopted a resolution calling for an "urgent resumption" of peace talks in the Middle East.
In return, he bowed to a plan stitched up between pan-European socialists and the European People's Party, the main conservative block in the EU, to give the council presidency to someone from the centre right and the foreign-policy job to the centre left.
The researchers hope to keep the data series, funded by the EU and the Natural Environmental Research Council (Nerc), running for as long as satellite-based measurements are available.
The Lisbon treaty is a bit hazy about what the president is to do, beyond organising summit meetings of the European Council and representing the EU in meetings with world leaders.
If Lisbon comes into force, the parliament will be the equal of the council in almost all EU legislation, gaining new rights over, for example, farm subsidies, fisheries, asylum and immigration.
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