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The Brussels Office:
Council of Europe’s link to the European Union in Brussels
 In 1975
the Council of Europe established a Liaison office to the European Union
Institutions in Brussels. Over the years, Council of Europe officials
have been co-operating with the European Union Headquarters in a number
of areas within their competences.
Following decisions at the Warsaw Summit in 2005, and recommendations of
a report of the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean- Claude Juncker in
2006, the Council of Europe and the European Union on 11 May 2007 signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), creating a new framework for
enhanced co-operation and political dialogue. The MoU represented a new
phase of the co-operation, highlighting the complementarity between the
two organisations and giving a framework for developing relations and
promoting human rights, democratic stability and the rule of law
throughout the European continent, and pursuing co-operation in fields
as intercultural dialogue, education, youth and social cohesion.
As of
2008 the Council of Europe’s Brussels Office has been up-graded by a
Special Representative of the Secretary General at Ambassador’s level,
while the EU is represented in Strasbourg by an Ambassador of the
European Commission. (more...)
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