The Council of Europe (CoE; French: Conseil de l'Europe, CdE) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe. Founded in 1949, it has 46 member states, with a population of approximately 675 million; it operates with an annual budget of approximately 500 million euros. ...

A council is a group of people who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. A council may function as a legislature, especially at a town, city or county/shire level, but most legislative bodies at the state/provincial or national level are not considered councils. At such levels, there may be no separate executive branch, and the council may effectively represent …

The political leadership of East Germany was distributed between several offices. The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and its leader held ultimate power and authority over state and government . Prior to the proclamation of an East German state, the Soviets established the German Economic Commission (DWK) in 1948 as a de facto government in their occupation …

The 18 March 1990 election were the first free ones held in the GDR, producing a government whose major mandate was to negotiate an end to itself and its state. [citation needed] Prior to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany did not have free elections. Polling places were under surveillance by the state security apparatuses and the ruling ...

Member of the collective head of state Else Merke East Germany: Member of the State Council: 13 November 1963: 26 November 1971: 8 years, 13 days Member of the collective head of state Brunhilde Hanke East Germany: Member of the State Council: 19 November 1964: 5 April 1990: 25 years, 137 days Member of the collective head of state Anni Neumann ...

The State Security Agency is the department of the South African government with overall responsibility for civilian intelligence operations. It was created in October 2009 to incorporate the formerly separate National Intelligence Agency, South African Secret Service, South African National Academy of Intelligence, National Communications Centre and COMSEC (South Africa).

Like the flags of West Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Weimar Republic, the flag of the German Democratic Republic showed the colors black, red and gold. The coat of arms, which, from 1959, was a hammer, compass and wreath of corn, was located in the middle of the color red. It was the official national flag of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) …

Economic union, a type of trade bloc; Political union, a type of state which is composed of or created out of smaller states; Personal union, the combination of two or more states that have the same monarch; Poor law union, a former unit of local government in the United Kingdom; Real union, a union of two or more states, which share some state institutions

The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (Serbo-Croatian: Država Slovenaca, Hrvata i Srba / Држава Словенаца, Хрвата и Срба; Slovene: Država Slovencev, Hrvatov in Srbov) was a political entity that was constituted in October 1918, at the end of World War I, by Slovenes, Croats and Serbs residing in what were the southernmost parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

George Pratt Shultz (/ ʃ ʊ l t s /; December 13, 1920 – February 6, 2021) was an American economist, diplomat, and businessman.He served in various positions under three different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held four different Cabinet-level posts (the other being Elliot Richardson). Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign …