# European Council

> institution of the European Union defining the EU's general political direction and priorities and consisting of heads of state or government of the EU's member states

**Wikidata**: [Q8886](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8886)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/european-council


## References

1. Virtual International Authority File
2. BnF authorities
3. [Source](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/fr/meetings/european-council/2019/06/30/)
4. [Source](https://www.consilium.europa.eu)
5. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
6. [Source](https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en)
7. GRID Release 2018-02-08
8. [Source](http://polscieu.ideasoneurope.eu/2012/12/02/the-days-the-euco-hashtag-was-born-and-starting-the-eu14-hashtag)
9. [Source](https://twitter.com/EUCouncil)
10. Via P227 lookup with GND value from PM20 folder. 20th Century Press Archives
11. [Source](https://www.govdirectory.org/european-union/)
12. Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
13. YouTube API
14. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)