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 36 Committee (Title VI of the EU Treaty)
- Assent procedure
- Audiovisual
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- COREU (CORespondance EUropéenne)
- Candidate countries
- Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Citizenship of the Union
- Clarity of the Treaties (simplification of the Treaties)
- Classification of expenditure
- Codecision procedure
- Collective defence
- Comitology
- Committee of the Regions
- Committees and working parties
- Common action (justice and home affairs)
- Common agricultural policy (CAP)
- Common commercial policy
- Common fisheries policy
- Common foreign and security policy (CFSP)
- Common organisation of agricultural markets (COM)
- Common position (CFSP)
- Common strategy (CFSP)
- Common transport policy
- Communitisation
- Community
- Community 'bridge' (Title VI of the EU Treaty)
- Community and intergovernmental methods
- Community law
- Community legal instruments
- Community patent
- Community powers
- Competition
- Competitiveness
- Composition of the European Commission
- Concentric circles
- Conciliation Committee
- Confirmation of the European Commission
- Consolidation of legislation - formal/official
- Consolidation of legislation - informal/declaratory
- Consultation procedure
- Consumer protection
- Convention (Title VI of the EU Treaty)
- Convergence criteria
- Cooperation procedure
- Coreper
- Council of the European Union
- Court of First Instance of the European Communities (CFI)
- Court of Justice of the European Communities
- Culture
- Customs union
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- Debate on the future of the European Union
- Decision and framework decision (Title VI of the EU Treaty)
- Declaration (CFSP)
- Deepening
- Democratic deficit
- Development aid
- Distribution of competences
- Double majority
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- Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
- Economic policy
- Economic, social and territorial cohesion
- Education
- Employment
- Employment Committee
- Energy
- Enhanced cooperation
- Enlargement
- Enterprise policy
- Environment
- Environmental liability
- Equal opportunities
- Equal treatment for men and women
- Eurojust
- Europe 'à la carte'
- European Central Bank (ECB)
- European Commission
- European Community
- European Company
- European Convention
- European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
- European Council
- European Court of Auditors
- European Development Fund
- European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
- European Employment Strategy (EES)
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- European Judicial Network in criminal matters (EJN)
- European Parliament
- European Research Area (ERA)
- European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)
- European Union
- European Union agencies
- European arrest warrant
- European institutions
- European political cooperation (EPC)
- European political parties
- European security and defence identity
- Europol (European Police Office)
- Excessive deficit procedure
- External responsibilities of the European Community
- eEurope
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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
- Hierarchy of Community acts (hierarchy of norms)
- High Representative for the CFSP (Mr/Ms CFSP)
- Human rights
- Humanitarian aid
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- Information Society
- Institutional balance
- Intellectual property
- Intergovernmental Conference (IGC)
- Ioannina compromise
- i2010
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- Joint action (CFSP)
- Joint position (Title VI of the EU Treaty)
- Judicial cooperation in civil matters
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- 'Multi-speed' Europe
- Measures to combat money laundering
- Mergers
- Monetary policy
- Monitoring the application of Community law
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- 'New-look' NATO
- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
- National parliaments
- Natura 2000
- Neighbourhood Policy
- Non-discrimination principle
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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
- 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
- Programme of Community aid to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Phare)
- Proportionality principle
- Public health
- Public procurement
- Public service
- Public service charter
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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 Charter (Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers)
- Social Policy Agreement
- Social dialogue
- Social partners
- Social policy
- Stabilisation and Association Process
- Stability and Growth Pact
- 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)
- Tax harmonisation
- Taxation
- Telecommunications or Electronic communications
- Television without frontiers
- Trans-European Networks (TEN)
- Transparency (access to documents)
- Transparency of Council proceedings
- Treaties
- Treaty of Amsterdam
- Treaty of Nice
- Troïka
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