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- composed of twenty-seven national ministers (one per state)
- informally known as the "Council of Ministers" or just "the Council"
- acts together with the Parliament as a legislature
- shares with the Parliament the budgetary power
- ensures coordination of the broad economic and social policy and sets out guidelines for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
- concludes international agreements
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- acts together with the Council (of the European Union) as a legislature
- shares with the Council (of the European Union) the budgetary power
- exerts the democratic control over the institutions including the European Commission and approves the Commission members
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