| Term | Definition |
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| 4 | The European Council meets, in principle, how many times per year |
| 5 | Since 1979, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have been directly elected, by universal suffrage, every ... years. |
| cooperation procedure | introduced by the Single European Act in 1987, the European Parliament can give its opinion on draft directives and regulations proposed by the European Commission, which is asked to amend its proposals to take account of Parliament’s position. |
| assent procedure | Since 1987, under which the European Parliament must give its assent to international agreements negotiated by the Commission and to any proposed enlargement of the European Union. |
| co-decision procedure | Introduced by the 1992 Treaty of Maastricht puts the Parliament on an equal footing with the Council when legislating on a whole series of important issues including the free movement of workers, the internal market, education, research, the environment, trans-European networks, health, culture, consumer protection, etc. The European Parliament has the power to throw out proposed legislation in these fields if an absolute majority of members of Parliament vote against the Council’s ‘common position’. The Treaty has made provision for a conciliation procedure. |
| EU budget | The European Parliament also shares, with the Council, equal responsibility for adopting the... |
| 5 | The members of the commission are appointed for a ...-year term by agreement between the member states |
| 36 | The Commission is assisted by a civil service made up of ... directorates-general (DGs) and services |
| 1 | The European Community is pillar number... |
| 3 | Justice and Home affairs is pillar number... |
| 2 | The Common Foreign and Security Policy is pillar number.... |
| Maastricht | A subsidiarity clause was introduced in Article 3b of the treaty of ... |
| Frankfurt | The European Central Bank (ECB) is based in ... |
| Luxembourg | The European Investment Bank (EIB) is based in ... |
| on European Union | The Committee of the Regions (CoR) was established under the Treaty... |
| Luxembourg | The Court of Auditors is based in ... |
| The European Social Fund (ESF) | Fund to promote job creation and help workers move from one type of work and/or one geographical area to another. |
| The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) | Fund to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion by reducing differences between regions and supporting the structural development and adjustment of regional economies, including the redevelopment of declining industrial regions. |
| Cohesion Fund | Fund to finance transport infrastructure and environmental projects in EU countries whose GDP per capita is lower than 90 % of the EU average. |
| Community Charter of Basic Social Rights | This Charter became an integral part of the Treaty and is now applicable in all the member states. Which charter? |
| The Treaty of Amsterdam | The Community Charter of Basic Social Rights became an integral part of which Treaty? |
| REACH | a single system for the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals |
| Convergence, Regional competitiveness and employment, European territorial cooperation | The funds earmarked for regional activities in the 2007–13 budget are targeted at three objectives |
| The European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) | the name of the budget for the CAP |
| 120 billion euro | To fund its policies, the European Union has an annual budget of more than |
| 1.24 % | The budget of the EU is financed by what is called the EU’s ‘own resources’, which cannot exceed an amount equivalent to ... of the total gross national income of all the member states. |
| PHARE | Verleent steun aan de kandidaat-lidstaten in Midden- en Oost-Europa |
| Ispa | Financiert op milieu en vervoer toegesneden projecten |
| Sapard | een financieringsinstrument voor de landbouw en de plattelandsontwikkeling |
| 2.25 % | EU countries decided to prevent exchange fluctuations of more than ... |
| Charter of fundamental rights of the European Union | In which charter are the rights of citizens declared? |
| Treaty of Nice (2001) | In which treaty is included the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union? |
| Den Haag | Where is Europol based? |
| Eurojust | a central coordinating structure established in The Hague in 2003 |
| Maastricht | The common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the European security and defence policy (ESDP), first introduced by the Treaty of |
| Javier Solana | EU’s first High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) in 1999 |
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