European Union – Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the European Council, 2022-2023

The current Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the European Council were elected on the 15th of January 2022, for a term of eighteen months. You can find out more about the institution of the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, and about the Council itself, in our Introduction and our Constitution.

Iras Tilkanas served as the Foreign Minister of Istkalen between 1989 and 1997. Tilkanas later became an important opposition politician during the Social Democratic period of her country. Elected to the European Council in 2021, Tilkanas has proposed a number of ground-breaking legislation, from an act to protect the right to strike and to form unions, to an amendment to revive the European Central Bank. Tilkanas has also guided European Council discussions on important issues, from her own country to the Strait crisis. Tilkanas was elected Speaker of the European Council in January 2022.

Deputy Speaker of the European Council – Cllr. Nicholas Benfield, Inimicus

Benfield is a long-time veteran of the European Council, having filled the role of the Inimican representative to the Council on and off since 2012, when his nation acceded to the European Union. From healthcare to immigration, and from climate change to medieval warming, Benfield's extensive political experience includes speaking on a wide variety of issues in the European Council and, more recently, the National Imperial Council of Inimicus. Benfield was elected Deputy Speaker of the European Council in January 2022.