Place:Outline of the European Union

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Short description: Overview of and topical guide to the European Union 
in Europe.[1][2][3][4] Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community.[5] With about 445 million citizens, the EU generates an estimated 30% share (US$18.4 trillion in 2008) of the nominal gross world product.[6] The EU has seven principal decision-making bodies known as the Institutions of the European Union, while the adoption of laws and coordination of EU policies is the role of the Council of the European Union which currently meets in ten different configurations.


Origins

  • History of the European Union
    • Ideas of European unity before 1945
    • History of the European Coal and Steel Community (1945–57)
    • History of the European Communities (1958–72)
    • History of the European Communities (1973–93)
    • History of the European Union (1993–2004)
    • History of the European Union since 2004
  • Location of the EU and its special territories
    European Communities
  • Single market, Trade bloc and Value-added tax
  • Subsidiarity
  • See treaties below

Identity

  • Symbols of Europe, symbols of the European Union
    • Flag of Europe
    • Anthem of Europe
    • Europe Day

Structures

  1. Members
    • Member states
      • Dependent Territories of Member States
    • Enlargement
    • Withdrawal
  2. Institutions
  3. Other bodies
    • European Committee of the Regions
    • European Economic and Social Committee
    • European System of Central Banks
    • European Investment Bank
    • European Investment Fund
    • Agencies of the European Union
    • European Ombudsman
    • European External Action Service
  4. Related Organisations

Law and policy

  1. Treaties of the European Union – Founding and amending treaties (primary legislation)
    • Treaty of Paris (1951)
    • Treaty of Rome (1957)
    • Merger Treaty (1965)
    • Single European Act (1986)
    • Maastricht Treaty (1992)
    • Amsterdam Treaty (1997)
    • Treaty of Nice (2001)
    • Treaty of Accession 2003
    • Treaty of Accession 2005
    • Treaty of Lisbon (2007)
    • Treaty of Accession 2011
    • Related documents
      • Schengen Agreement
      • Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
      • Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
  2. EU Policy Areas
    • Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (Euro)
    • European Political Cooperation
    • Common Agricultural Policy
    • Common Fisheries Policy
    • Regional policy of the European Union
    • Trans-European Networks
    • Energy
  3. European Union law
  4. Forms of Secondary Legislation
    • Directive
    • Regulation
    • Recommendation
  5. Topics of Secondary Legislation
    • Copyright law of the European Union
  6. Directives and Regulations of Secondary Legislation:
A topographic map of Europe

Miscellaneous

A satellite composite image of Europe

See also

European Union

References

  1. ↑ Jackson, James K. (9 March 2009). "The Financial Crisis: Impact on and Response by the European Union". Federation of American Scientists: Congressional Research Service. p. 28. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40415.pdf. "The European Union is a political and economic union of 27 member states, formally established in 1993 by the Treaty of Maastricht out of existing structures that had evolved in steps since the 1950s." 
  2. ↑ Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations. "What is the European Union?". http://www.franceonu.org/spip.php?rubrique764. "Europe is a geographical and cultural notion. The European Union is a political and economic union among 27 States on the European continent" 
  3. ↑ "Cabinet statement on German EU Presidency". Regierung Online. Press and Information Office of the [German] Federal Government. 5 November 2006. http://www.bundesregierung.de/nn_6564/Content/EN/Pressemitteilungen/BPA/2006/11/2006-11-05-eu-ratspraesidentschaft__en.html. "The European Union is a political union..." 
  4. ↑ "European Union", New Oxford Dictionary of English, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 635, ISBN 0-19-860441-6:"an economic and political association of certain European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs...." 
  5. ↑ Craig, Paul; Grainne De Burca; P. P. Craig (2006). EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials (4th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 15. ISBN 978-0-19-927389-8. ; "Treaty of Maastricht on European Union". Activities of the European Union. Europa (web portal). http://europa.eu/scadplus/treaties/maastricht_en.htm. 
  6. ↑ "World Economic Outlook Database, April 2009 Edition". International Monetary Fund. April 2009. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2007&ey=2009&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=001%2C998&s=NGDPD%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPSH&grp=1&a=1&pr.x=50&pr.y=9. "
    Gross domestic product, current prices; US dollars, Billions;
    2007 = 16,927.173
    2008=18,394.115
    2009=15,342.908 [projection]
    Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) valuation of country GDP; Current international dollar, Billions;
    2007 = 14,762.109
    2008 = 15,247.163
    2009 = 14,774.525 [projection]
    GDP based on PPP share of world total
    2007 = 22.605%
    2008 = 22.131% 2009 = 21.609% [projection]
    World "GDP", current prices; US dollars, Billions;
    2007 = 54,840.873
    2008= 60,689.812
    2009= 54,863.551 [projection]
    These data were published in 2009. Data for 2009 are projections based on a number of assumptions."     




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