Monaco from Wednesday to six months will be headed by the Council of the European Union - EU body, which meets at the Ministerial level of member States, and will, for example, the coordinate positions on immigration policy, the enlargement of the European Union and the fight against tax evasion. Luxembourg, which will take the baton from Latvia will hold the EU presidency in the 12-th time. During this period of time the range of options the President of the European Council changed many times. Currently interim head of the Council of Ministers provides for the procedure of lawmaking, and enforces the first marked the agenda of the EU and compromise between the member countries, and, therefore, must occupy an intermediate position on a number of controversial issues. Luxembourg from July to December will preside over the meetings of the permanent representatives of member countries of the EU and the Ministerial meetings, in addition to the EU Council on foreign relations, where this role is given to the head of European diplomacy. The Ambassador of Luxembourg to the EU Christian brown had previously stated that the number of priorities will include the development of a common capital market already outlined the steps for creating an energy Union, the protection of personal data and the development of a single digital market. In the fight against tax evasion Luxembourg looks forward to the end of the year to legislate the European Commission's proposed scheme on the exchange of information on the practice of taxation. Already in June, Luxembourg is expected to achieve a compromise on a more sensitive issue - immigration policy. At the conference the EU on 25 June, the leaders agreed to take 40 thousand immigrants who are already in Greece and Italy, as well as 20 thousand asylum seekers from third countries. Besides, to do it not on a mandatory basis, as proposed by the European Commission, and voluntary. Now the Council shall before the end of July to agree a scheme whereby refugees will be distributed across countries. in the upcoming semester the Council will also solve the issues related to the enlargement of the EU. Review of Ambassador, before the end of the year you should not expect any positive changes in relations with countries that have not yet received the status of EU candidates. However, some of those who have already received this status, it is expected to open the head of the negotiations on accession to the organization. For example, the EC has stated many times that before the end of the year would like to open the first head of the negotiation dossier on accession of Serbia to the EU. in addressing some of the main issues the presidency will not play a significant role. The political weight of Luxembourg will be limited, and among them, in obgovarivaya of the situation around Ukraine - the head of the EU Council will focus on implementing agreed by member countries norms. The EU has saved Monaco from the need to hold discussions on economic sanctions against Russia and against the Crimea, extending them, respectively, until January 31 and before June 23, 2016. However, by September, the European Union will be obliged to decide the fate of penalties against individual authorized by the Russian Federation and Ukraine, which the EU believes are responsible for undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine. in solving the Greek debt problem, the head of the Council of the EU is not particularly critical. The process is managed by the Eurogroup - the Finance Ministers of the Eurozone. On another important issue - the upcoming referendum in the UK on EU membership and reform of the European Union - the main negotiators are the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission.