<p>Chapter 1: Introduction: The Council Presidency in EU studies: what have we learned and what has changed in the decade of crises?.- Chapter 2: Theorising the presidency of the Council.- Chapter 3. The legal regime applicable to the Council Presidency: competing conceptual approaches and pragmatic solutions.- Chapter 4. The Procedural Legacy of Two Years of Covid-19 pandemic. How the Temporary Modification of the Council’s Rules of Procedure Became Permanent.- Chapter 5. The 2009 transition from the rotating to the permanent presidency of the European Council.- Chapter 6. The European Council and the rotating EU Council Presidency: patterns of cooperation and rivalry beyond the formal treaty rules.- Chapter 7.From mediator to crisis manager: evolving relationship between the Council Presidencies and the European Parliament in times of crisis.- Chapter 8. The Commission is always ready to help’: the ambiguous relationship between the European Commission and the Council Presidency in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure.- Chapter 9. Presiding in the shadows. The rotating Council Presidencies as structures of opportunity for the legitimization of the European Union.- Chapter 10. Still the Dealmaker? The Council Presidency in EMU Michele Chang and Raquel Ugarte Díez.- Chapter 11. Article 7 TEU on the agendas of the Council’s rotating presidencies: Still a “nuclear option” or rather “a talking shop”?.- Chapter 12. How does the Council legitimise the EU’s response to international crises? Emotion Discourse Analysis of the High Representative’s communications on Russia’s war of aggression.- Chapter 13. Does the Presidency of the Council still have the means to achieve its ambitions? The French Presidency 2022 and the promotion of EU sovereignty.- Chapter 14. Rotating Presidencies, Rotating Sponsors? Corporate Sponsorship of the Presidencies of the Council of the EU under Scrutiny.- Chapter 15. Conclusion. The rotating presidency of the Council: a major actorof the EU that is here to stay.</p>
