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The agencies of the European Union (formally: Agencies, decentralised independent bodies, corporate bodies and joint undertakings of the European Union and Euratom) are bodies of the European Union and Euratom established as juridical persons through secondary EU legislation and tasked with a specific narrow field of work. [1] They are distinct ...
According to the Copenhagen criteria, membership of the European Union is open to any European country that is a stable, free-market liberal democracy that respects the rule of law and human rights. Furthermore, it has to be willing to accept all the obligations of membership, such as adopting all previously agreed law (the 170,000 pages of ...
Map showing the member states of the European Union (clickable) Through successive enlargements, the EU and its predecessors have grown from the six founding states of the EEC to 27 members. Countries accede to the union by becoming a party to the founding treaties, thereby subjecting themselves to the privileges and obligations of EU ...
Prior to this, the venue for European Council summits was in the member state that held the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. [35] In order to make room for additional meeting space a number of renovations were made, including the conversion of an underground carpark into additional press briefing rooms. [ 36 ]
Its 344 members (with an additional nine members joining following the accession of Croatia to the EU), appointed by the council for four-year terms, are organised into three fairly equal groups representing employers, employees and other various interests; [2] while the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is composed of representative of ...
The European Union (EU) is a sui generis supranational union of states. At a European Council Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 June and 22 June 1993, [2] the European Union defined the Copenhagen criteria regarding the conditions a candidate country has to fulfill to be considered eligible for accession to the European Union:
Density of Population in the European Union 2014. Lists of member states of the European Union provide different types of information about each of the states in the European Union. They include lists about politics, demographics and economics.
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