{"id":312,"date":"2013-02-12T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T15:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hum.port.ac.uk\/europeanstudieshub\/?page_id=312"},"modified":"2017-05-09T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:43:16","slug":"who-is-the-president-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hum.port.ac.uk\/europeanstudieshub\/learning\/module-1-understanding-eu-institutions\/who-is-the-president-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the President of Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A: No one.<\/p>\n<p>Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissenger famously asked \u201cwho do I call if I want to call Europe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The answer depends, of course, on what you want to talk about and who you want to talk to. However, Kissenger\u2019s famous remark draws attention to the multiple layers of leadership in the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>The supranational nature of the EU and its multiple institutions means that there is a \u201cplethora of presidents\u201d in the European Union. This is in part a question of the number of institutions and in part a question of terminology.<\/p>\n<p>The European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission all have \u2018presidents\u2019 and the Council of Ministers has, in addition, a rotating presidency that changes between member states every six months.<\/p>\n<p>But these presidents are in effect the chairpeople of the various institutions they manage. They have influence of course (particularly in their relative institutions), but none are presidents in the same sense as the term is used in relation to the head of state in the USA or France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/en\/council-eu\/presidency-council-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read about the rotating Presidency of the Council of Ministers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/10852850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read an (sceptical)\u00a0<i>Economist<\/i>\u00a0article written on the multiple presidencies of Europe.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hum.port.ac.uk\/europeanstudieshub\/learning\/module-1-understanding-eu-institutions\/the-court-of-auditors\/\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hum.port.ac.uk\/europeanstudieshub\/learning\/module-1-understanding-eu-institutions\/to-sum-up\/\">Next &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A: No one. 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