Ireland and Europe : ‘Year of Citizens 2013’
European institutions have become a sprawling network of different bodies and secretariats based in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg to manage and coordinate the economic and political work of the European Union. The European Council was established in 1974 as an informal forum for discussion between heads of state or government. It rapidly developed to set goals and direction of the European Union acquiring formal status in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty. It became one of the seven European institutions after…
