Abstract
The Presidency of the European Union Council is an attribution that is not often analysed in the literature on EU decision-making. To put it briefly, the member state holding the Presidency of the Council for six months is in fact chairing the meetings of the European Council, meeting at least twice a year, and of the EU Council. As it is defined by the Treaties as an organisational function, only a few academics devoted attention on it as an influential agenda-shaper. However this occupation, following the example of many European institutions, developed itself apart from its legal attributions throughout the years. As a result, it needed to be reconsidered and this has been done by Tallberg in his article The agenda-shaping powers of the EU Council Presidency. It is a rather straightforward piece of work so we will go through Tallberg's main arguments following his own order. We will see that even though Tallberg's findings are hardly questionable - as he is using both theoretical and empirical methods - there is still a need to develop some of them.
