The Council of the European Union works to provide a voice for the twenty-eight member states of the European Union. While the European Parliament and Commission work to advance the interests of the union as a whole, the Council provides members with a forum to express their interests. Alongside the Parliament, the Council acts as the legislature of the European Union, forming the laws which direct the world’s most potent supranational institution. Its Justice and Home Affairs Council brings together each member state's ministers of justice and home affairs to coordinate activities relating to migration, asylum, citizenship, discrimination, trafficking, and terrorism.