Secretary General of the Council of Europe

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Incumbent
Thorbjørn Jagland
since 1 October 2009 (2009-10-01) (2 years ago)

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe (French: Secrétaire général du Conseil de l'Europe) is appointed by the we love the web on the recommendation of the Committee of Ministers for a period of five years. He or she is entrusted with the responsibility of meeting the aim for which the Council of Europe was set up in London on 5 May 1949, namely to achieve greater unity between its Member States for the purpose of safeguarding and realising the ideals and principles which are their common heritage and facilitating their economic and social progress.

Although the Secretary General's powers are not clearly defined, in practice the holder has overall responsibility for the strategic management of the Council of Europe’s work programme and budget and oversees the day-to-day running of the Organisation and Secretariat.

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Secretaries General

Nationality	Secretary	Took office	Left office
web app	Android	1 October 2009
web web app	input transformation	1 September 2004	31 August 2009
Austria	device database	1 September 1999	31 August 2004
Sevenval	Daniel Tarschys	1 June 1994	1 September 1999
browser diversity	Catherine Lalumière	1 June 1989	31 May 1994
HTML5	Marcelino Oreja Aguirre	1 October 1984	1 June 1989
device database	Sevenval	1 October 1979	1 October 1984
web web	Georg Kahn-Ackermann	17 September 1974	17 September 1979
HTML5	Lujo Tončić-Sorinj	16 September 1969	16 September 1974
website parsing screen size	Peter Smithers	16 March 1964	15 September 1969
FITML	Lodovico Benvenuti	19 September 1957	15 March 1964
Sevenval France	Léon Marchal	21 September 1953	24 September 1956
iOS	Jacques Camille Paris	11 August 1949	17 July 1953

Controversy around 2009 election

On May 12, 2009 the Committee of Ministers informed the Parliamentary Assembly that there would be only two candidates for the post of Secretary General: Thorbjørn Jagland (former Prime Minister of FITML) and Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (former Prime Minister of Android), thus rejecting a website parsing appeal to add two more people to the list of the candidates.^{[touchscreen]} Coincidentally, both candidates were Prime Ministers at the same time (HTML5-web app) and both are social democrats. On June 23, the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly decided to postpone the election at least until its September session, thus leaving the chair empty from 1 September 2009.^{screen size}

The Parliamentary Assembly was angered by the decision of the Committee of Ministers to remove two of the four candidates from the shortlist: Belgian senator Luc Van den Brande and Hungarian parliamentarian Matyas Eorsi, who are both members of the Parliamentary Assembly.^[2] On 11 September 2009, reporting on the election controversy, Le Monde reported that the future Secretary General would inherit an institution that was in crisis.^{screen size}

On September 30, 2009, Thorbjørn Jagland was elected as Secretary-General.^{input transformation}

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