European Union
...UNION 1
1.3. THE LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT FOR EUROPEAN UNION 2
2. THE EUROPEAN UNION 4
2.1. HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION 4
2.1.1. HOW THE EU WAS BUILT 4
2.1.2. MEMBER STATES OF EU 8
2.1.3. HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION 9
2.2. DEPARTMENTS AND POLICIES 11
2.2.1. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION 11
2.2.2. THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS 11
2.2.3. THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT 12
2.2.4. THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE (ECOSOC) 12
2.2.5. THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE 12
2.2.6. THE EU CONSUMER COMMITTEE 13
2.2.7. THE EUROPEAN BUREAU OF CONSUMER ORGANIZATIONS 13
2.2.8. HOW EU LAWS ARE MADE 13
2.2.9. EU-SPEAK 14
2.2.10. THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 14
2.2.11. FOOD SURPLUSES 15
2.3. THE CONSUMER PROGRAM 15
3. EUROPEAN SINGLE MARKET 19
3.1. WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN SINGLE MARKET? 19
3.2. BACKGROUND 19
3.3. CONTROVERSIES 20
BIBLIOGRAPHY 22
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1. MISSIONS AND VISIONS FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION
After fifty years of evolvement, European Union is not a simply an international organization anymore. The Union's functions are spreading from purely economic and monetary up to the social and security matters; it has become an integral part of government for almost each European country.
The missions and visions for the European Union we seek is really the big picture of the Union that we have in our mind for the future of this organization. Thus we need to come together and look out for what the picture is like and where does the overlapping occur.
1.2. THE GENERAL VIEW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Although an implicit agreement seems to have been reached that European Union is something much more than simply an international organization of a kind, there seems to be no distinct vision of what it is then. What is European Union? What should we call it? What should we compare it to? Or is it completely unique and incomparable?
The issue of the...
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