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Glossary of summaries
A
- Abstention, constructive (positive abstention)
- Accession criteria (Copenhagen criteria)
- Accession negotiations
- Accession partnership
- Acquis
- Animal welfare
- Annual growth survey
- Antitrust control
- Audiovisual
- Audiovisual media services directive
B
C
- Candidate countries
- Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Citizens’ initiative
- Civil protection
- Civil Service Tribunal
- Civil society organisation
- Climate action
- Codification
- Collective defence
- Comitology
- Committee of the Regions
- Committees and working parties
- Common agricultural policy (CAP)
- Common fisheries policy (CFP)
- Common foreign and security policy (CFSP)
- Common organisation of agricultural markets (COM)
- Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
- Community and intergovernmental methods
- Competition
- Competitiveness
- Composition of the European Commission
- Conciliation Committee
- Conferral
- Confirmation of the European Commission
- Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
- Consent procedure
- Consolidation
- Consultation procedure
- Consumer protection
- Convergence criteria
- Copernicus
- CORDIS
- Coreper
- COREU (CORespondance EUropéenne)
- Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
- Council of the European Union
- Court of Auditors
- Court of Justice
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- Culture
- Customs union
D
- Deepening and widening
- Delegated acts
- Democratic deficit
- Development cooperation
- Distribution of competences
E
- Economic, social and territorial cohesion
- Economic and Monetary Union (EMU)
- Economic governance
- Economic policy
- Education
- Electronic communication networks
- Electronic communications
- Electronic communication services
- Employment
- Employment Committee
- Energy
- Enhanced cooperation
- Enlargement
- Enterprise policy
- Environment
- Environmental liability
- Equality between women and men
- Equal opportunities
- EU-28 and candidate countries
- EU action (CFSP)
- EU citizenship
- EU law
- EU legal instruments
- EU powers and competences
- EURES - European Employment Services
- Euro area
- Eurogroup
- Eurojust
- Europe's banking union
- European arrest warrant
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- European Banking Authority (EBA)
- 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 Economic Area (EEA)
- European Employment Strategy (EES)
- European External Action Service (EEAS)
- European Globalisation Adjustment Fund
- European governance
- European institutions
- European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- European Judicial Network in criminal matters (EJN)
- European Parliament
- European political parties
- European Public Prosecutor's Office
- European Research Area (ERA)
- European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
- European security and defence identity
- European Semester
- European Social Fund (ESF)
- European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
- European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)
- European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB)
- European System of Central Banks
- European Union
- European Union (EU) hierarchy of norms
- European Union agencies
- Europe ‘à la carte’
- Europol (European Police Office)
- Eurosystem
- EU Trade policy
- Excessive deficit procedure (EDP)
- Excessive imbalance procedure
F
- Fight against drugs
- Fight against fraud
- Fight against organised crime
- Fight against racism and xenophobia
- Fight against terrorism
- Food safety
- Freedom and security
- Free movement of persons, asylum and immigration
G
H
- High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
- Horizon 2020
- Humanitarian aid
- Human rights
I
- Implementing acts
- Information Society
- Institutional balance
- Intellectual Property
- Internal Security Strategy (ISS)
- Ioannina compromise
J
K
L
M
- Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP)
- Measures to combat money laundering
- Member States
- Mergers
- Monetary policy
- Monitoring the application of EU law
- Multiannual Financial Framework
- Mutual defence clause
- ‘Multi-speed’ Europe
N
- National parliaments
- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
- Natura 2000
- Neighbourhood Policy
- Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)
- Non-discrimination (the principle of)
- Non-legislative acts
- ‘New-look’ NATO
O
- OLAF (European Anti-Fraud Office)
- Ombudsman
- Open method of coordination
- Opting out
- Ordinary legislative procedure (Codecision)
- Outermost regions
- Overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- Own resources
P
- Parliamentary committees
- Permanent structured cooperation
- Petersberg tasks
- Petitions
- 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
Q
R
- REACH (regulatory framework for chemicals)
- Recasting of legislation
- Reinforced qualified majority
- Research and development
- Revision of the Treaties
- Right of initiative
- Rule of law
- Rural development
S
- Schengen (Agreement and Convention)
- Screening
- Services of general economic interest
- Simplification of legislation
- Single resolution mechanism
- Single supervisory mechanism
- Small and medium-sized enterprises
- Social dialogue
- Social partners
- Social policy
- Social services of general interest (SSGIs)
- Solidarity clause
- Specialised courts
- Stabilisation and Association Process
- Stability and Growth Pact
- Standing Committee on Internal Security
- State aid
- Statute for Members of the European Parliament
- Structural and Investment Funds
- Subsidiarity
- Subsidiary powers
- Suspension clause
- Sustainable development
T
- TAIEX (Technical Assistance and Information Exchange)
- Taxation
- Tax harmonisation
- The European Union’s external action
- Trans-European networks (TEN)
- Transparency (access to documents)
- Transparency of Council proceedings
- Transport policy EU
- Treaties
- Trio
U
- Unanimity
- Uniform electoral procedure for the European Parliament
- Union for the Mediterranean
- Unitary patent
- Universal service
