That kind of makes sense. As for anything to become a law/directive at the end it has to pass in the parliament and thus needs to have a majority coalition ther

That kind of makes sense. As for anything to become a law/directive at the end it has to pass in the parliament and thus needs to have a majority coalition there behind it. So it is a bit useless to have the guy running to Council (and thus having a huge say on its agenda) who is against the platform of the majority coalition in the Parliament.