A-Z listing of entries

The Penguin Companion to European Union contains over 350 interlocking entries, arranged in a convenient A to Z format. The entries are:

Abatement – 290 words

Accession – 370

ACP states – 820

Acquis communautaire – 540

Action Committee for United States of Europe (ACUSE) – 760

Additionality – 150

Adenauer, Konrad – 1500

Advocate-General – 320

Agencies – 1440

Albert-Ball Report – 520

Allied Command Europe (ACE) – 230

Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) – 220

Amsterdam Treaty – 1290

Antici and Mertens Groups – 470

Arctic Council – 250

Articles 114 and 115 – 350

Article 352 – 1220

Association agreement – 640

 

Baltic states – 620

Bank of International Settlements (BIS) – 310

Barents-Euro Arctic Council (BEAC) – 350

Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union – 180

Benelux – 1260

Berlaymont – 570

Better Law-Making and Better Regulation – 650

Beyen Plan – 570

Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) – 220

Black Wednesday – 1620

Blair, Tony – 3780

Briand, Aristide – 470

British Budget dispute – 1390

British referendum on EC membership – 810

Bruges speech – 1090

Brussels – 1280

Brussels Treaty – 1060

Budget – 910 (plus 2 charts)

Budgetary process – 2660

Brezhnev Doctrine – 220

 

Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) – 430

Cabinet – 960

Cassis de Dijon case – 510

Cecchini Report – 270

Central bank governors – 630

Central Commission for the Navigation on the Rhine (CCNR) – 250

Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) – 210

Central European Initiative (CEI) -360

Charter of Fundamental Rights – 2060

Charter of Paris – 220

Christian Democracy – 1834

Churchill, Winston – 1360

Citizen’s initiative and petitions – 1120

Cockfield White Paper – 920

Co-decision procedure – 2590

Cohesion and Cohesion Fund – 400

Cold War – 2240

COMECON – 390

Comitology – 3010

Committee of the Regions – 980

Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) – 3160

Common Commercial Policy (CCP) – 1760

Common Customs Tariff (CCT) – 400

‘Common European home’ – 270

Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) – 2160

Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) – 2900

Common market – 350

Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) – 1720

‘Communautization’ – 280

‘Community method’ – 550

Competence – 1250

Competition policy – 2590

Compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure – 500

Concentric circles – 570

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) – 400

Congress of Europe – 420

Consent procedure – 1350

Consultation procedure – 590

Consumer policy – 460

Copenhagen criteria – 530

Convention on Future of Europe – 2550

Convergence criteria – 700

Cooperation agreement – 650

Cooperation procedure – 1570

COREPER – 1160

Coudenhove-Kalergi, Richard – 510

Council of Europe – 3300

Council of Ministers – 3530

Court of Auditors – 1350

Croatia – 290

Customs union – 1210

 

Danube Commission – 280

Decision – 440

de Gasperi, Alcide – 680

de Gaulle, Charles – 4310

Delors, Jacques – 3060

Delors Report – 3790

Democratic deficit – 1110

Derogation – 330

Development policy – 1350

Direct effect – 490

Directive – 620

Discharge procedure – 500

Discrimination on grounds of nationality – 420

Dooge Committee – 880

Draft Treaty establishing the European Union (DTEU) – 1040

Dunkirk Treaty – 200

 

Ecofin Council – 310

Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) – 380

Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) – 640

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) – 3270

Education policy – 480

Elysée Treaty – 1100

Energy policy – 1370

Enhanced cooperation – 2460

Enlargement – 1070

Environment policy – 1230

Equal treatment – 780

ERTA case – 930

EU law – 920

EU Military Committee (EUMC) – 1430

Euro – 440

Eurobarometer – 210

Eurobonds – 1000

Eurocommunism – 530

Eurocontrol – 530

Eurocorps – 670

Eurocrats – 2580

EUROFOR – 340

Eurogroup and Euro Summit – 1610

‘Euro-myths’ – 600

Europa – 310

European anthem – 170

European army – 680

European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom) – 1190

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – 930

European Central Bank (ECB) – 2410

European citizenship – 680

European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) – 2620

European Commission – 4970

European Communities – 540

European Constitution – 2240

European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – 1920

European Council – 4450

European Courts(s) – 300

European Court of Justice (ECJ) – 2150

European Currency Unit (ECU) – 610

European Defence Community (EDC) – 1410

European Development Fund (EDF) – 580

European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) – 1310

European Economic Area (EEA) – 1900

European Economic Community (EEC) – 350

European economic governance – 1330

European elections – 2480

European External Action Service (EEAS) – 1510

European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM) – 530

European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and European Stability Mechanism (ESM) – 1490

European flag – 800

European Free Trade Association (EFTA) – 1070

European Investment Bank (EIB) – 1340

European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC) – 230

European Monetary Cooperation Fund (EMCF) – 270

European Monetary Institute (EMI) – 440

European Monetary System (EMS) – 480

European Movement – 260

European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) – 820

European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – 430

European Parliament – 9580

European Political Community (EPC) – 1480

European Political Cooperation (EPC) – 1480

European political parties – 2820

European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) – 760

European Social Fund (ESF) – 320

European Space Agency (ESA) – 460

European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) – 510

‘European Union’ – 1330

European University Institute (EUI) – 810

Europe des patries – 140

Euroscepticism – 1180

‘Eurosclerosis’ – 170

Eurostat – 350

Eurozone – 790

Eurozone debt crisis – 8430

‘Ever closer union’ – 350

Excessive deficit procedure (EDP) – 1850

Exchange-Rate Mechanism (ERM) – 1600

Exit clause – 680

 

Factortame case – 460

‘Failure to act’ – 900

Fontainebleau Agreement – 820

Federalism and confederalism – 1490

Finalités politiques – 180

Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) and General Affairs Council (GAC) – 630

Fouchet Plan – 3000

Founding fathers – 630

‘Four freedoms’ – 370

Franco-British Union – 480

Francovich case – 360

Free movement – 220

Free movement of capital – 640

Free movement of goods – 1220

Free movement of persons – 870

Free movement of services – 540

Free trade area – 450

Freedom of establishment – 420

French referendum on Maastricht Treaty – 940

French and Dutch referenda on European Constitution – 2070

Functionalism and neo-functionalism – 1270

 

Genscher-Colombo Plan – 530

German reunification – 1060

Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry – 1910

Greenland and the Faeroes – 230

Group of Seven (G7) / Eight (G8) / Twenty (G20) – 1590

Gymnich meetings – 260

 

Hallstein, Walter – 770

Harmonization – 470

Heath, Edward – 1160

Helsinki Final Act – 360

Helsinki Headline Goal – 660

‘Hierarchy of acts’ – 400

High Authority – 250

High Representative – 2840

 

Iceland – 790

Institutions – 450

Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) – 1210

Inter-Institutional Agreement (IIA) – 1100

International agreements – 1020

Ioannina Compromise – 1290

Irish referenda on EU Treaties – 1020

 

Jenkins, Roy – 660

Juste retour – 350

Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) – 1760

 

Kangaroo Group – 170

Karlsruhe judgements – 2660

Kohl, Helmut – 2610

 

Languages -1470

Lamers-Schäuble paper – 560

Legal act – 770

Legal base – 680

Legal certainty – 240

Legal personality – 1240

Lisbon Treaty – 1490

Luxembourg Compromise – 3390

 

Maastricht ratification crisis – 1030

Maastricht Treaty – 1400

MacDougall Report – 610

Marshall Plan – 930

Member state – 420

Merger Treaty – 420

Messina Conference – 370

Micro-states – 1360

Mitterrand, François – 2120

Monetary Committee – 330

Monnet, Jean – 2170

Monti Report – 1110

Mutual recognition of professional qualifications – 720

 

National parliaments – 3700

NATO Parliamentary Assembly – 270

Neutrality – 510

Nice Treaty – 2360

Noël, Emile – 880

Non-discrimination – 220

‘Non-Europe’ – 200

Non-tariff barriers – 140

Nordic Council – 840

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) – 3180

Norway – 680

 

Official Journal – 460

‘Old’ and ‘New’ Europe – 420

Ombudsman – 970

Opt-out – 1350

OEEC and OECD – 1430

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) – 600

Overseas countries and territories (OCTs) – 740

Own resources – 1690

 

Padoa-Schioppa Report – 490

Pan-Europa – 380

Passerelle clause – 930

Permanent representation – 830

Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PSCD) – 1060

Petersberg tasks – 360

Pillars and ‘pillared structure’ – 560

Pleven Plan – 120

Political and Security Committee (PSC) – 480

Political groups – 3820

Positive and negative integration – 340

‘Precursors’ of European integration – 900

Preliminary ruling – 280

Presidency – 1660

President of the European Council – 3240

Primacy – 1300

Proportionality – 410

Protocol and declaration – 500

 

Qualified majority voting (QMV) – 3660

 

Rapporteur – 730

Ratification – 900

Reasoned opinion – 220

Referendum – 480

Regulation – 740

Renegotiation – 650

Research and development policy – 760

Resignation of Santer Commission – 1210

Right of initiative – 910

 

Saarland – 830

Saint-Malo Declaration – 360

Sapir Report – 300

Schengen – 1260

Schuman, Robert – 1190

Schuman Plan – 930

Seats of EU institutions – 3570

Sforza, Carlo – 200

Single European Act (SEA) – 1370

Single market – 1550

Six, The – 410

Social and employment policy – 810

Social Charters and Social Chapter – 670

Social partners – 720

Sovereignty – 890

Spaak, Paul-Henri – 970

Spaak Committee – 490

Spinelli, Altiero – 1280

Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) – 1010

Staff regulations – 470

Structural funds – 1190

Stuttgart Declaration – 850

Subsidiarity – 2430

Suez crisis – 2780

Summits – 700

Supranationalism and intergovernmentalism – 1410

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) – 420

Suspension – 540

Switzerland – 1600

Symbols of the Union – 750

 

Tax harmonisation – 980

Thatcher, Margaret – 3890

Tindemans Report – 730

Trade Policy Committee – 450

Transatlantic relations – 1520

Trans-European Networks (TENs) – 790

Transitional period – 440

Transport policy – 2020

Treaties – 1360

Treaty of Paris – 170

Treaty / Treaties of Rome – 210

Troika – 920

Truman Doctrine – 230

Turkey – 1200

Two-speed Europe – 1480

 

Unanimity – 670

Uniform electoral procedure – 1220

United Nations (UN) – 1440

‘United States of Europe’ – 730

Uri, Pierre – 410

 

Value-added tax (VAT) – 1340

Van Duyn case – 260

Variable geometry – 480

Vedel Report – 650

Visegrád Group – 320

 

Warsaw Pact – 360

Werner Report – 2220

Western European Union (WEU) – 2230

 

Yalta and Potsdam Conferences – 1000

‘Year of Europe’ – 610

Yugoslavia – 1260

 

Zurich speech – 1130.

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