Glossary
Glossary
The following glossary contains 233 terms relating to European
integration and the institutions and activities of the EU.
The glossary is being updated given the recent signing of the Treaty of Lisbon.
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- Abstention, constructive (positive abstention)
- Accession criteria (Copenhagen criteria)
- Accession negotiations
- Accession of new Member States to the European Union
- Accession partnership
- Animal welfare
- Antitrust control
- Area of freedom, security and justice
- Article 71 Committee (Title V of the TFEU)
- Audiovisual
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- Candidate countries
- Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Citizenship of the Union
- Citizens’ initiative
- Civil society organisation
- Classification of expenditure
- Codecision procedure
- Collective defence
- Comitology
- Committee of the Regions
- Committees and working parties
- Common agricultural policy (CAP)
- Common commercial policy
- Common fisheries policy
- Common foreign and security policy (CFSP)
- Common organisation of agricultural markets (COM)
- Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
- Common transport policy
- Community acquis
- Community and intergovernmental methods
- Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers
- Community patent
- Competition
- Competitiveness
- Composition of the European Commission
- Concentric circles
- Conciliation Committee
- Confirmation of the European Commission
- Consent procedure
- Consolidation of legislation - formal/official
- Consolidation of legislation - informal/declaratory
- Consultation procedure
- Consumer protection
- Convergence criteria
- Coreper
- COREU (CORespondance EUropéenne)
- Council of the European Union
- Court
- Court of Auditors
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- Culture
- Customs union
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- Economic, social and territorial cohesion
- Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
- Economic policy
- Education
- Employment
- Employment Committee
- Energy
- Enhanced cooperation
- Enlargement
- Enterprise policy
- Environment
- Environmental liability
- Equal opportunities
- Equal treatment for men and women
- EU action (CFSP)
- EU position (CFSP)
- Eurojust
- Euro-Mediterranean Partnership
- Europe 'à la carte'
- European arrest warrant
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- European Commission
- European Company
- European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- European Council
- European Development Fund
- European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
- European Employment Strategy (EES)
- European External Action Service
- European institutions
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- European Judicial Network in criminal matters (EJN)
- European legal instruments
- European Parliament
- European political parties
- European powers
- European Research Area (ERA)
- European security and defence identity
- European Union
- European Union (EU) hierarchy of norms
- European Union agencies
- European Union law
- Europol (European Police Office)
- Excessive deficit procedure
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- Fight against drugs
- Fight against fraud
- Fight against organised crime
- Fight against racism and xenophobia
- Fight against terrorism
- Financial perspective
- Food safety
- Free movement of persons (visas, asylum, immigration and other policies)
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- Galileo
- General-interest services
- Genetically modified organisms (GMO)
- Globalisation of the economy
- Governance
- Green Paper
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- Hard core
- High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
- Humanitarian aid
- Human rights
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- Information Society
- Institutional balance
- Intellectual property
- Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)
- Ioannina compromise
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- 'Multi-speed' Europe
- Measures to combat money laundering
- Mergers
- Monetary policy
- Monitoring the application of Community law
- Mutual defence clause
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- 'New-look' NATO
- National parliaments
- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
- Natura 2000
- Neighbourhood Policy
- Non-discrimination (the principle of)
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- OLAF (European Anti-fraud Office)
- Ombudsman
- Open method of coordination
- Opting out
- Outermost regions
- Own resources
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- Parliamentary committees
- Permanent structured cooperation
- Petersberg tasks
- Petitions
- Pillars of the European Union
- Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
- Political and Security Committee (PSC)
- Pre-accession assistance
- Pre-accession strategy
- Precautionary Principle
- Presidency of the Council of the European Union
- President of the European Commission
- President of the European Council
- Proportionality principle
- Public health
- Public procurement
- Public service
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- REACH (regulatory framework for chemicals)
- Recasting of legislation
- Reinforced qualified majority
- Research and development
- Revision of the Treaties
- Right of initiative
- Rural development
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- Schengen (Agreement and Convention)
- Screening
- Services of general economic interest
- Simplification of legislation
- Single institutional framework
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Social dialogue
- Social partners
- Social policy
- Social Policy Agreement
- Solidarity clause
- Specialised courts
- Stabilisation and Association Process
- Stability and Growth Pact
- Standing Committee on Internal Security (COSI)
- State aid
- Statute for Members of the European Parliament
- Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
- Subsidiarity
- Subsidiary powers
- Suspension clause
- Sustainable development
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- TAIEX (Technical Assistance Information Exchange)
- Taxation
- Tax harmonisation
- Telecommunications or Electronic communications
- Television without frontiers
- The European Union’s external responsibilities
- Trans-European Networks (TEN)
- Transparency (access to documents)
- Transparency of Council proceedings
- Treaties
- Treaty of Amsterdam
- Treaty of Nice
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