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Denmark aims to bring a touch of class to the Council. Denmark has a good reputation in the field of furniture and interior décor. So for at least the duration of...

Finance ministers not welcome in the Justus Lipsius building. Amid the sequence of meetings at the weekend on the eurozone's debt crisis, an interesting precedent was set. On...

Staff evacuated because of fire in nearby electrical substation. A fire in an electrical substation today led to a power cut in large parts of the EU quarter, including the...

The choice of 21 July as the date for a summit of eurozone leaders is not without symbolism in Brussels. It is a national holiday – marking the date when the first king...

Were you in, or out, at the European Council? It wasn't just the agenda that was complicated when the EU held two separate summits in one day last Friday (11 March). 

Watch out if you go near the Justus Lipsius. The European Commission's security staff sent round some shocking pictures last week – of a gang of pickpockets operating at...

Some work was done in the Christmas break. The European quarter in Brussels was not exactly humming with activity between Christmas and New Year, though the snow made the...

Greenpeace boat was right at home. The environmental campaign group Greenpeace parked an imitation fishing boat in front of the offices of the Council of Ministers on...

Queen Beatrix not a fan of Euroquarter architecture. Europe By Satellite (EBS), the European Commission's television newsfeed, put out a curious exchange between...

European Council president chooses a library for his first meeting of national government leaders. The venue for next Thursday's informal European summit is to be the...

Staff at the Council of Ministers will go on strike on Thursday after national governments refuse to raise their pay. Staff at the EU's Council of Ministers have decided to...

Officials stage demonstration in Justus Lipsius building as part of industrial action. Civil servants working for the Council of Ministers are on strike this morning, but...

Climate change demo poses as ministerial convoy. Demonstrators from the campaign group Greenpeace breached the security of the European Union summit on Thursday to stage...

If farmers pretend to demonstrate, will ministers pretend to legislate? Haven't we heard that argument somewhere before? A few shiny tractors parked just below the...

The Czechs still want to mix politics and culture. The Czech presidency shows unquenchable optimism. After the disappointments over its Entropa artwork in the Justus Lipsius...

Entropa lights the Council of Ministers' way. A partial power-cut in the Council of Ministers' Justus Lipsius building on 9 March delayed the start of a meeting of...

Denmark's pedometer-loving foreign minister suffers on bike. Per Stig Møller, Denmark's foreign minister, once came to Brussels for a European Council and showed off his...

There is a boat called Treaty of Rome outside the Justus Lipsius building of the Council of Ministers this week. It belongs to the Sail for Europe organisation that aims to...

At one point during the longueurs of Friday night, a silent camera-feed was showing pictures of the salon on the fifth floor of the Justus Lipsius building where diplomats...

The attempt to strip away the paraphernalia of European Councils was a bold one. There had been nothing like it since Pörtschach during the Austrian presidency of...