A Dictionary of the European Union [antikvár]

A DICTIONARY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION aims to give a comprehensiveoverview of the development and current status of the European Union. Thejourney from European Communities to European Union has been a long one;there have been many arguments and difficulties, but also co-operation andenlargement. Information on a variety of European issues is here brought togetherto give the reader a wide range of facts and background knowledge on the EuropeanUnion. Thus, this Dictionary includes entries on the history of the European Unionand the issues and personalities of importance to its development, as well as oncurrent achievements, debates, concepts, programmes and people.Most entries in the Dictionary will point the reader towards other relevantentries by means of cross-references. These cross-references within entries will befound in bold type, to denote the existence of a separate entry. However, it shouldbe noted that the potential number of highlights precludes putting in bold thoseterms that are used in almost every entry. Thus, European Communities, EuropeanUnion, the names of current Member States, etc. are not highlighted, unless theauthors deem it necessary to further understanding for the reader to be pointedtowards such entries. For the purposes of alphabetization, words such as 'and', 'of','the', etc. have been ignored.The reader should be aware of the difference between the terms European Union,European Community and European Communities. The European Communitieswere established by three separate treaties, with, from 1967, common institutions.The name of one community, the European Economic Community, was formallychanged to the European Community from 1993; thus, when referring to the Treatyof Rome alone after 1993, European Community (EC) is used in the singular.Referring to the three communities from their conception onwards, the Dictionaryuses European Communities (EC) in the plural. The European Union, consisting ofthree inter-related pillars, came into existence in 1993. Thus, the supranational pillarof the European Union continues to be known in this book as the EuropeanCommunities (EC), while references to the European Union as a whole, whichincludes the two inter-governmental pillars, use European Union (EU).March 2004