The President of the Eurogroup received two names for the position of Vice President of the ECB: Philip Lane for Ireland and Luis de Guindos for Spain.
Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2018/89 of 22 January 2018 amending Decision (CFSP) 2016/849 concerning restrictive measures against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,
President Donald Tusk and President Jean-Claude Juncker invited President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for a meeting in Varna, Bulgaria, on 26 March 2018
On 31 January 2018, EU ambassadors endorsed the provisional deal reached with the European Parliament on the financing of the European Union Youth Orchestra.
Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union on the alignment of certain third countries with Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/2426 of 21 December 2017 amending Decision 2014/512/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia's actions destabilising the situation in Ukraine
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker wants to make the EU more accessible to the people of Europe, proposing on Wednesday a bicameral system consisting of the EU Parliament and a council of member states. The presidents of the EU Commission and perhaps also the EU Council would be directly elected, and in the long term the two presidencies would be fused into one. Journalists ask if this will take the EU in the right direction.