List of European Union-related topics

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Topics on the European Union
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PoliticsEnlargement Eurojust Europol Three pillars (Community Common Foreign and Security Policy Police and Judicial Cooperation) Integration Military
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Origins of the EU

Identity of the EU and its members

Structures that comprise the EU

  1. Members
  2. *Member States
  3. **Dependent Territories of Member States
  4. *Enlargement
  5. Institutions
  6. *European Commission (CEC)
  7. **President of the European Commission
  8. **Barroso Commission
  9. **Prodi Commission
  10. **Santer Commission
  11. **Delors Commission
  12. *European Parliament (EP)
  13. **Member of the European Parliament
  14. **President of the European Parliament
  15. **European political party
  16. *Council of the European Union (also named Council of Ministers or just Council)
  17. **Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  18. **Qualified Majority Voting (QMV)
  19. **COREPER
  20. *European Council
  21. *European Court of Justice incorporating the Court of First Instance
  22. *European Court of Auditors
  23. Other bodies
  24. *Committee of the Regions (CoR)
  25. *Economic and Social Committee (ESC)
  26. *European Central Bank (ECB)
  27. *European System of Central Banks
  28. *European Investment Bank
  29. *European Investment Fund
  30. *Agencies of the European Union
  31. *European Ombudsman
  32. Related Organisations
  33. *EFTA
  34. *European Economic Area (EEA)
  35. *Western European Union

EU law and policy

  1. Three pillars of the European Union
  2. * 1st: European Communities (EC)
  3. * 2nd: Common Foreign and Security Policy
  4. * 3rd: Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
  5. Treaties of the European Union - Founding and amending treaties (primary legislation)
  6. *Treaty of Paris (1951)
  7. *Treaty of Rome (1957)
  8. *Merger Treaty (1965)
  9. *Single European Act (1986)
  10. *Treaty of Maastricht (1992)
  11. *Treaty of Amsterdam (1997)
  12. *Treaty of Nice (2001)
  13. *Treaty of Accession 2003
  14. *Treaty of Accession 2005
  15. *Related documents
  16. **Schengen treaty
  17. **Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe
  18. **Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
  19. EU Policy Areas
  20. *Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (Euro)
  21. *European Political Cooperation
  22. *Common Agricultural Policy
  23. *Common Fisheries Policy
  24. *Regional policy
  25. *Trans-European Networks
  26. *Energy
  27. EU law
  28. *Acquis Communautaire
  29. *Official Journal of the European Union
  30. *EU competition law (see also Antitrust, Cartel, Economics, Microeconomics, Perfect competition, Industrial organization, Game theory)
  31. Forms of Secondary Legislation
  32. *Directive
  33. *Regulation
  34. *Recommendation
  35. Topics of Secondary Legislation
  36. *Copyright law of the European Union
  37. Directives and Regulations of Secondary Legislation:
  38. *European Company Statute
  39. *Protected designation of origin
  40. *Community patent
  41. *Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals
  42. *Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
  43. *Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data
  44. *Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection

Organizations analogous to the EU

Miscellaneous

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Treaties, structure and history of the European Union


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European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)

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history of Europe describes the human events that have taken place on the continent of Europe. From prehistoric to modern times, Europe has had a turbulent, cultured, and much-documented history.
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This is a timeline of European Union history and its previous development.

See also

  • History of the European Union
  • European Coal and Steel Community
  • European Economic Community

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    The idea of European unity is not new, the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire united large areas under a loose administration for hundreds of years.
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    The first moves towards the establishment of the Union came following the end of the Second World War. In 1951 the first community was established and led to two others being founded by the end of the 50s.
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    Out of the two newly founded communities, the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), the former became the most important community.
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    On 1 January 1973, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom became the first countries to join the Communities. The newly enlarged Ortoli Commission takes office under François-Xavier Ortoli on 5 January.
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    European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was founded by the Treaty of Paris (1951). Its members were France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands who pooled their steel and coal resources and create a common market for those products.
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    Eurojust (also spelled capitalised as EUROJUST) is a European Union body composed of national prosecutors, magistrates or police officers of equivalent competence from each of the European Union's member states.
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    Europol (the name is a contraction of European Police Office) is the European Union's criminal intelligence agency. It became fully operational on July 1, 1999.
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    pillars.

    The three pillars

    1. The first or 'Community' pillar concerns economic, social and environmental policies.
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    The Common Foreign and Security Policy, or CFSP, was established as the second of the three pillars of the European Union in the Maastricht treaty of 1992, and further defined and broadened in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1999. It superseded the European Political Cooperation.
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    The European Union is not yet a state and as such does not have its own dedicated military forces. There are a number of multi-national military and peacekeeping forces which are ultimately under the command of the EU.
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    European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. It operates in the method of cabinet government, with 27 "Commissioners", one for each country of the EU, led by a Commission President (currently José
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    Council of the European Union

    Established 1952
    Presiding Country Portugal
    President Luís Amado
    President in Office José Sócrates
    Members 27 (at one time)
    Political parties 7, including:
    European People's Party
    Party of European Socialists
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    Court of Justice of the European Communities, usually called the European Court of Justice (ECJ), is the highest court in the European Union (EU). It has the ultimate say on matters of EU law in order to ensure equal application across the various European Union member
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    Elections in the European Union take place every five years by universal adult suffrage. 785 MEPs are elected to the European Parliament which has been directly elected since 1979.
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