Subject: European Union Basics (FAQ), Part 8/8
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Summary: This file is part of an eight-part posting containing basic
  information about the European Union and other related or unrelated
  European political organisations. It is hoped to serve both as background
  information for those wishing to discuss European politics on the
  talk.politics.european-union newsgroup, and as a general reference for
  anyone concerned with politics in Europe.
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European Union Basics (FAQ) list

Version 2.1 of 31 May 1995. Posted regularly to talk.politics.european-union,
eunet.politics, alt.politics.ec, alt.answers, talk.answers and news.answers.
See <About this list> in the last part of this list for ways to retrieve the
most recent version or (better) read the HTML version mentioned above. There
you will find original accented characters not present in this text version.

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About the European Union Basics (FAQ)

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Author, contributors and sources

This list was edited by Roland Siebelink <rcsiebel@vub.ac.be>. Please
contact me by e-mail if you have any questions, corrections, contributions
or remarks about this list.

Several people contributed to the information contained in this list, thus
making it more complete, accurate and up-to-date. I would like to thank
specifically:

   * Malte Lewan <cml@df.lth.se>
   * Alan Fraser Reekie <aree@dg13.cec.be>
   * Nick Bernard <bernn@essex.ac.uk>
   * Jozef van Brabant <Jozef_van_Brabant_at_UNHQ3@un.org>
   * David Lauder <ddl1@unix.york.ac.uk>
   * Jonathan Slater <jhs335@ulst.ac.uk>
   * Hiski Haapoja <trhiha@uta.fi>
   * Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi>
   * Tamio Nakamura <tn29@cornell.edu>
   * Ole Villumsen <olevi@daimi.aau.dk>
   * Carsten Quell <quell@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
   * Hein Verkerk <heinv@xs4all.nl>
   * Antero Aunesluoma < antero.aunesluoma@helsinki.fi>
   * And finally, Andrew Macmullen <a.l.macmullen@durham.ac.uk>, who helped
     me a lot in sending many minor corrections and additional information.
     He also gave some additional information:

          <Most of the infomation contained here could be found in
          greater depth in basic text books on the EU. Three excellent
          up to date works (and all available in paperback editions)
          are:

             o NUGENT (N.) 1994. The Government and Politics of the
               European Union. London, Macmillan.
             o DINAN (D.) 1994. An Ever Closer Union? London,
               Macmillan.
             o ARCHER (C.) 1994. Organizing Europe: the Institutions of
               Integration. Edward Arnold.

          The leading academic journal carrying excellent material on
          all aspects of the EU is, in spite of its rather out-dated
          title: Journal of Common Studies (Blackwells, Oxford). This
          includes an invaluable annual supplement The European Union
          Annual Review of Activites.>

Some of the (paper) sources I used to find the answers to the questions in
this list are:

   * WESTLAKE (M.) 1994. A modern guide to the European Parliament. London,
     Pinter, 302pp.
   * NOEL (E.) 1994. Working Together--The Institutions of the European
     Community. Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European
     Communities, 66pp.
   * STEIN (M.) & VON WITZLEBEN (A.), eds., 1994. Europe Info. Directory of
     important information sources in the European Union. Luxembourg, Office
     for Official Publications of the European Communities, 161p.
   * EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, 1994.Fact Sheets on the European Parliament and
     the activities of the European Union. Brussels-Luxembourg, European
     Parliament/Directorate-General for Research, 473pp.
   * The Treaties of Paris, Rome and Maastricht and the Single European Act.
   * Various brochures published by the European Commission and the European
     Parliament.

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Last modifications on 31 May 1995. Edited by Roland Siebelink; corrections
and suggestions welcome.

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Roland Siebelink <rcsiebel@vub.ac.be>


