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Watch: How do EU Council summits work? We take you behind the scenes
A number of occasions a 12 months, leaders and journalists from throughout Europe descend on Brussels for European Council summits.
These conferences are the place the heads of presidency from the 27 completely different member states talk about points dealing with them and hash out widespread positions.
They normally happen 4 occasions a 12 months — roughly each three months — nevertheless it’s commonplace for extra conferences to be referred to as if there are points that require leaders’ fast consideration. This occurred a number of occasions in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic or the primary 12 months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
We take you on a behind-the-scenes tour of the European Council buildings in Brussels to interrupt down how these occasions — which generally go properly into the night time — unfold.