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    Germany joining the next year. It now has 46 member states, with Montenegro being the latest to join. Article 4 of the Council of Europe Statute specifies...
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    The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the...
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    The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (Arabic: مجلس التعاون لدول خلیج العربية), also known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC; Arabic:...
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    democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it brings together 46 member states with a population of approximately 675 million as of 2023[update];...
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    democracy and the rule of law. The Assembly is made up of 306 members drawn from the national parliaments of the Council of Europe's member states, and meets...
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    of Belgium. EUCO is composed of the heads of state or government of the EU member states, the President of the European Council, and the President of...
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  • Member states of the World Sports Alliance | 24 Member states of the League of Nations Member states of the Venice Commission | 58 Member states of the...
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    been a member of the Council of Europe, an international organization that focuses on strengthening democracy, human rights, and the rule of law across...
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  • Membership of the United Nations Security Council is held by the five permanent members and ten elected, non-permanent members. Being elected requires...
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    adopted in 1955 by the Council of Europe (CoE) as a symbol for the whole of Europe. Since 1985, the flag has also been a symbol of the European Union (EU), whose...
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    The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council...
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    within the context of the Council of Europe, and all of its 46 member states are contracting parties to the convention. The court's primary means of judicial...
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    of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Article 5 of the treaty...
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    heads of state or of government of the EU member states, the President of the European Council, and the President of the European Commission. The High...
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    des ministres) is the Council of Europe's decision-making body. It comprises the Foreign Affairs Ministers of all the member states, or their permanent...
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    from the twelve member states of the Council of Europe gathered in Strasbourg in the summer of 1949 for the first-ever meeting of the Council's Consultative...
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    the Council of Europe is the legal and political process whereby a member state of the Council of Europe rescinds from the Statute of the Council of Europe...
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    The European Union itself does not issue ordinary passports, but ordinary passport booklets issued by its 27 member states share a common format. This...
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    Security Council. In addition to the member states, the UN also invites non-member states to be observer states at the UN General Assembly. A member state...
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    The European Union (EU) is an institution of its own kind consisting of member states being part of an alliance as well as military neutral member states...
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  • any UN member state but are defined as states by the declarative theory of statehood. None are members of the UN, Council of Europe or EU. The following...
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    protecting the rights of minorities. It came into effect in 1998 and by 2009 it had been ratified by 39 member states. The Council of Europe first discussed...
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  • The Statute of the Council of Europe (also known as the Treaty of London (1949)), signed on 5 May 1949, brought into existence the Council of Europe, an...
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    The European Convention on Extradition is a multilateral treaty on extradition drawn in 1957 up by the member states of the Council of Europe and in force...
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    the same level of protection everywhere in Europe became apparent. The Ministers of Justice of Council of Europe member states began discussing the need...
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    representing local and regional authorities from the forty-six member states of the Council of Europe. Its role is to promote local and regional democracy, improve...
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  • is a member of the Council of Europe. Membership is obligatory for joining the European Union. As of 2023[update] Turkey has nearly a third of the cases...
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    The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union. To join the EU...
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    which the Council of Europe was set up in London on 5 May 1949, namely to achieve greater unity between its Member States for the purpose of safeguarding...
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  • Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty signed by Member States of the Council of Europe on 27 November 1963 in Strasbourg, France. It entered into...
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