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The following hierarchical outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the European Union:
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The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 28 member states, located primarily in Europe. 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. With 500 million citizens, the EU combined generates an estimated 30% share (US$18.4 trillion in 2008) of the nominal gross world product.
Origins
Identity
Structures
- Members
- Member States
- Dependent Territories of Member States
- Enlargement
- Institutions
- European Commission
- President of the European Commission
- Barroso Commission
- Prodi Commission
- Santer Commission
- Delors Commission
- Thorn Commission
- Jenkins Commission
- Ortoli Commission
- Mansholt Commission
- Malfatti Commission
- Rey Commission
- Hallstein Commission
- European Civil Service
- European Parliament
- Member of the European Parliament
- President of the European Parliament
- European political party
- Political groups of the European Parliament
- Elections to the European Parliament
- Committees of the European Parliament
- Council of the European Union (also named Council of Ministers or just Council)
- Presidency of the Council of the European Union
- Voting in the Council of the European Union
- Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER)
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- European Court of Justice
- General Court (European Union)
- List of members
- List of European Court of Justice rulings
- European Court of Auditors
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- European Council
- Other bodies
- European Committee of the Regions (CoR)
- European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
- European System of Central Banks
- European Investment Bank
- European Investment Fund
- Agencies of the European Union
- European Ombudsman
- European External Action Service
- Related Organisations
- European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- Western European Union (WEU)
Law and policy
- 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
- 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
- European Union law
- Acquis communautaire
- Official Journal of the European Union
- EU competition law (see also Antitrust, Cartel, Economics, Microeconomics, Perfect competition, Industrial organization, Game theory)
- Forms of Secondary Legislation
- Directive
- Regulation
- Recommendation
- Topics of Secondary Legislation
- Copyright law of the European Union
- Directives and Regulations of Secondary Legislation:
- Societas Europaea
- Protected designation of origin
- Unitary patent
- Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals
- Directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
- Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data
- Directive on harmonising the term of copyright protection
Miscellaneous
References
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