Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, welcomed the result of the referendum.
But none of this is likely to be agreed at Wednesday and Thursday's European Council meeting.
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The recommendations also will be considered at next week's session of the European Council.
The treaty creates a full-time standing president of the European Council (which represents national leaders).
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Another prerequisite to expansion is the extension of qualified majority voting (QMV) in the European Council.
He said the government would "fully update" the European Council of its views in September.
The European Council, which includes all 27 members, is now the EU's most powerful body.
But a big role in the negotiations will be played by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
The prime minister met European Council President Herman van Rompuy on Thursday morning, before formal talks began.
Other questions focused on the president of the European Council, education policy, and TV coverage of rugby.
Then the European Parliament and the European Council will decide whether to put any proposed amendments into law.
The MEPs will now go into negotiation with the European Council and Commission over the future shape of subsidies.
"The European Council reiterates its readiness to take additional measures against those responsible for violence, " said the draft document.
The aim, as the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said, was "to make the euro an irreversible project".
The proposed committee, assuming that the assemblies agree to it, will operate rather like the European Council of Ministers.
Eurocrats in Brussels like to portray the rotating presidency as largely redundant now there is a permanent European Council president.
Mr. Putin attended the dinner, along with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy.
The European Council on Foreign Relations, a newcomer on the scene, employs its fair share of ex or quasi-hacks.
ERC's legal form, on a date yet unspecified, rests with the European Parliament and member states in the European Council.
European politicians, including European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso, have also cancelled their trips.
The European Council looks set to approve the first stage of a eurozone banking union at its meeting in late June.
In the end, finance ministers were largely bystanders as others, including European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, negotiated the final deal.
Conservative Bill Cash praised Prime Minister David Cameron for using the UK's veto at the previous European Council summit last month.
It is being left to Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, to find a compromise and avert a breakdown.
The President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has defended her.
The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has suggested a budget that would be 75bn euros less than the Commission.
Mr Grant emphasises the need for an enhanced role for the European Council, which comprises the heads of government of member states.
Given all this, it would be very difficult for Germany to get support in the European Council for this more drastic plan.
But Poland, whose six-month presidency of the European Council begins in July, is in a good position to influence what it says.
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