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The EU’s new General Affairs Council (GAC) was designed to fulfill the role of strategic coordinator for policy-making. Nearly a year-and-a-half since its creation, this aim is even more pertinent than ever, since the need to develop that function has become more acute. The GAC has not asserted itself politically and other possible coordinators that are well established and permanently based in Brussels are not the ideal actors to carry out the coordinating function, which needs a strong political involvement of the member states at the ministerial level.