WebA directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve a particular result without dictating the means of achieving that result. Directives first have to be enacted into national law by member states before their laws are ruling on individuals residing in their countries. Directives normally leave member states with a certain …

WebThe European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – have the higher status of "procedural" languages of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages). Irish previously had the lower status of "treaty language" before being upgraded to an …

WebAlthough the European Union has legislated, set targets, and negotiated internationally in the area of energy policy for many years, and evolved out of the European Coal and Steel Community, the concept of introducing a mandatory common European Union energy policy was only approved at the meeting of the European Council on October 27, 2005 …

WebOn 1 November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty introduced new concepts such as the euro, a European Central Bank or the European citizenship; it also changed the name of the Community to the European Union reflecting the evolution of the organization from an economic union into a political union: the Union is founded on the European …

WebThe European Union (EU) Environmental Policy was initiated in 1973 with the "Environmental Action Programme" at which point the Environmental Unit was formed (named Directorate General for the Environment in 1981).The policy has thereafter evolved "to cover a vast landscape of different topics enacted over many decades" (Reuters) and …

WebThe European Union Referendum Act required a referendum to be held on the question of the UK's continued membership of the European Union (EU) before the end of 2017. It did not contain any requirement for the UK Government to implement the results of the referendum. Instead, it was designed to gauge the electorate's opinion on EU membership.

WebOfficial Journal of the European Union; Type: Daily official journal: Publisher: European Union: Founded: 30 December 1952 () Language: Official languages of the EU member states: Headquarters: European Union: Website: ... Citizenship. Passports of the European Union; Identity; Pro-Europeanism; Euroscepticism; European banking union. …

WebNegotiations. Romania was the first country of post-communist Europe to have official relations with the European Community.In 1974, a treaty included Romania in the Community's Generalized System of Preferences.After the Romanian Revolution of 1989, membership of the EC, and its successor the European Union (EU), had been the main …

WebThe Overseas Countries and Territories are recognised by the Article 198 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which allows them to opt into EU provisions on the freedom of movement for workers and freedom of establishment, and invites them to join the Overseas Countries and Territories Association (OCTA) in order to improve cooperation …

WebThe demographics of the European Union show a highly populated, culturally diverse union of 27 member states. As of 1 January 2021, the population of the EU is about 447 million people. Population by country. The most populous member state is Germany, with an ... citizenship is the traditional criteria in the EU, it might be meaningful in western …