EUROPEAN UNION
Here you can find interesting facts about European Union. For example, you can learn more about the EUROPEAN COMISSION and the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.
You can also check the quiz named EU&Me that has been designed to give young people a quick and useful introduction to the European Union. You can also search for you MEP. If you want information in a nutshell, visit the sites EU in brief and the member countries.
The official government website of Germany’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2020: Site is certainly forth a visit.
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Do not forget to open this document to get, not only these links mentioned above, but also more facts and material on Eropean Union: INFORMATION.
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ABOUT THE EU
The European Union is a unique economic and political union between 27 EU countries that together cover much of the continent.
The predecessor of the EU was created in the aftermath of the Second World War. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: the idea being that countries that trade with one another become economically interdependent and so more likely to avoid conflict.
The result was the European Economic Community (EEC), created in 1958, and initially increasing economic cooperation between six countries: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Since then, 22 other members joined and a huge single market (also known as the 'internal' market) has been created and continues to develop towards its full potential.
On 31 January 2020 the United Kingdom left the European Union.
What began as a purely economic union has evolved into an organization spanning policy areas, from climate, environment and health to external relations and security, justice and migration. A name change from the European Economic Community (EEC) to the European Union (EU) in 1993 reflected this. Text: https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en
If you have any questions about the EU you can turn to your nearest Europe Direct information point. Europe Direct Varsinais-Suomi (Southwest Finland) information point shares information about the EU to the citizens. It is a part of the information service network managed by the European Commission. You can also take contact to the Europe Direct Contact Centre, which is run by the European Commission. It answers to your questions about the European Union, via phone or email. The staff includes native speakers of all the EU's 24 official languages. Click the links for contact details.
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