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.