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| | European Information - University of Exeter Library and Information Service |
 | | European private law homepage(Ius commune) provides legislation, case law and commentary on all areas of European private law. | | | IDEA is the online version of the Interinstitutional Directory of the European Union, searchable by name or by position. | | | Impact of the enlargement of the European Union on small and medium-sized enterprises in the Union was published by the Enterprise DG in 2000. |
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--European Union |
| | European Union Legal Research-- From the Harvard Law School Library, a thorough guide to research on all aspects of EU law, through all the relevant media. | | | EUR-Lex-- The searchable portal of the European Union for European Union Law, | | | European Anti-Poverty Network-- "An independent coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and groups involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union," supported by the European Commission. |
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http://www2.etown.edu/vl/eurunion.html
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| | European Union News (Office of the Commission in Washington) | | | RAVE (abbreviation of "Recherche von Artikeln aus dem Völker- und Europarecht") is "a database for research of articles and decisions in public international law and European law". | | | Europa: This is the official homepage of the European Union. |
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http://www.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/EULAW.htm
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| | European Union information - Lawlinks |
| | Walter Hallstein-Institute for European Constitutional Law - papers on European constitutional law, many in English | | | EMU historical documentation - all the major documentation leading up to monetary union | | | European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters.This European Commission site links to the judicial system of all the member states, with information on the court structure, civil procedure, the legal professions, dispute resolution, etc. There is both general and state by state information |
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http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/european.htm
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| | Regional: Europe: European Union - Open Site |
| | The European Union is based on the rule of law and democracy. | | | European flag is the symbol not only of the European Union but also of Europe's unity and identity in a wider sense. | | | The European Union is built on an institutional system which is the only one of its kind in the world. |
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http://www.opensite.info/index.php/Regional/Europe/European_Union
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| | European Union |
| | European Union News (Office of the Commission in Washington) | | | RAVE (abbreviation of "Recherche von Artikeln aus dem Völker- und Europarecht") is "a database for research of articles and decisions in public international law and European law". | | | Europa : This is the official homepage of the European Union. |
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http://www2.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/EULAW.htm
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| | European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As a result of this European Union Law is increasingly present in the systems of the member states. | | | The European Communities are one of the three pillars of the European Union, being both the most important pillar and the only one to operate primarily through supranational institutions. | | | The European Union or EU is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 European countries, known as member states. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_union
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--European Union |
| | European Union Legal Research-- From the Harvard Law School Library, a thorough guide to research on all aspects of EU law, through all the relevant media. | | | EUR-Lex-- The searchable portal of the European Union for European Union Law, | | | European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research-- By Marylin J. Raisch, and from the Law Library Resource Xchange, a fine bibliographic essay about online and print sources on EU law. |
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http://www.etown.edu/vl/eurunion.html
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--European Union |
| | European Union Legal Research-- From the Harvard Law School Library, a thorough guide to research on all aspects of EU law, through all the relevant media. | | | EUR-Lex-- The searchable portal of the European Union for European Union Law, | | | European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research-- By Marylin J. Raisch, and from the Law Library Resource Xchange, a fine bibliographic essay about online and print sources on EU law. |
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http://www2.etown.edu/vl/eurunion.html
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| | Constitutional and Institutional Law of the European Union |
| | The European Community/Union has an increasing impact on international law, and also pervades all areas of national law, policy, and the economy of each of the Member States of the EU itself. | | | European Community Law and National Law: Primacy of EC Law: Direct Applicability: Direct Effect: Treaty Provisions: International Agreements: Reception of EC law in Member States: | | | This syllabus concentrates on the constitution and institutions of the European Union. |
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http://www.lawtutorsonline.co.uk/ConstEULLM.htm
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| | JUSTICE CONTAINED: LAW AND POLITICS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION |
| | Kenney, Professor of Public Affairs and Law, Director, Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. | | | Lisa Conant has written a wonderful book, JUSTICE CONTAINED: LAW AND POLITICS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, which I recommend to scholars in the fields of public law, European politics, comparative law, and public policy. | | | Those steeped in American constitutional law and theory rather than European Union policy might also be taken aback by the cavalier way that Conant deals with the issue of the intent of the framersin this case, the drafters of the treaties (or subsequent laws). |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/conant-lisa.htm
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| | BUBL LINK: European union |
| | European Union Web server, with information on the Parliament, the Council, the Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, and other bodies of the European Union. | | | CORDIS (The Community Research and Development Information Service) is a service provided by the European Union and aims to coordinate the dissemination of information regarding the latest research and innovative practices from member countries. | | | Author: Delegation of the European Commission to the United States |
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http://bubl.ac.uk/link/e/europeanunion.htm
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| | LLRX -- Research Guide to Belgian Law |
| | European "regulations" have immediate force of law in the Member States, and they appear in the Official Journal of the EU, as do "directives" and other official documents. | | | The Council of State is the highest administrative court. | | | The judicial branch consists of regular courts in different appeal levels (private and criminal law matters), later an administrative court was added (1948). |
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http://www.llrx.com/features/belgian.htm
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| | European Union |
| | RAVE (abbreviation of "Recherche von Artikeln aus dem Völker- und Europarecht") is "a database for research of articles and decisions in public international law and European law". | | | It is "A Survey of Cases on State Liability for Breach of European Community Law" compiled by G.Betllem and J.Lefevere. | | | The EU employers' Network - Developments in European social and employment law. |
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http://www.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/EULAW.htm
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| | The University of Saarland, Germany |
| | Guide to Law Online - list of useful Swedish links (from Law Library of Congress in US) | | | Guide to Law Online - list of useful French links (from Law Library of Congress in US) | | | Guide to Law Online - list of useful Greek links (from Law Library of Congress in US) |
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http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/english/euro.html
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| | EU enlargement |
| | the entire body of EU law (the so-called acquis communautaire), and adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union (the acquis criterion). | | | The enlargement of the EU fulfils the hope that the successful model of the EU with its values of democracy, the rule of law, the protection of human rights and minorities can be transferred to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, thus ensuring lasting peace, freedom, security and political stability. | | | The ceremonial signing of the Treaty of Accession with the ten accession countries took place in Athens on 16 April 2003 with the participation of the Heads of State and Government and the Foreign Ministers of the countries involved. |
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http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/eu_politik/vertiefung/erweiterung_html
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| | CH-EU - European Union - Enlargement of the European Union |
| | Each candidate for membership is required to have stable institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and respect for and protection of minorities; this is known as the political criterion. | | | Turkey, which has been an official candidate since 1999, has been invited by the European Council to continue the reforms required to fulfil the political criteria for accession: democracy, the rule of law, human rights and the protection of cultural minorities. | | | In December 2000 the Nice European Council approved the institutional reforms, including the allocation of seats and votes on the Council, the Commission and the Parliament in a 27-member Union. |
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http://www.europa.admin.ch/eu/info_mat/dossiers/e/erweiterung.htm
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| | Information Sources: Western Europe & The European Union |
| | The New York University Law Library is an official depository for European Union documents. | | | Center for European Legal Studies at Columbia Law School | | | The Centre for European Reform is a think-tank devoted to improving the quality of the debate on the future of the European Union. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/lehman/guides/westoid.html
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| | European Union News (Office of the Commission in Washington) | | | RAVE (abbreviation of "Recherche von Artikeln aus dem Völker- und Europarecht") is "a database for research of articles and decisions in public international law and European law". | | | Europa: This is the official homepage of the European Union. |
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http://www.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/EULAW.htm
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| | European Union Law - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Unlike other bodies of international law, it is generally recognized that European Union law overrides the national laws of its member states. | | | The primary legislation, or treaties, are effectively the constitutional law of the European Union. | | | The European Union is unique among international organizations in having a complex and highly developed system of internal law which has direct effect within the legal systems of its member states. |
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http://www.wacklepedia.com/e/eu/european_union_law.html
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| | Guide to European Union Research |
| | CELEX: Access to European Union law CELEX is a comprehensive and authoritative source of EC law offering full-text coverage of a wide range of legal acts from the founding treaties, to enacted and proposed legislation, international agreements and the decisions of the European Courts before Dec. 31 2004. For Jan. 2005 forward, use Eur-Lex. | | | Eur-Lex (European Union Law) Initially, EUR-Lex provides free public access to issues of the Official Journal of the European Communities (both L and C series) published in the last twenty days, the Treaties, consolidated versions of existing legislation and recent judgments by the Court of Justice. | | | Europe in the US (Delegation of the Commission of the European Union to the United States) |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/EUInternet.htm
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| | EUguides - European Union Enlargement - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance |
| | Prior to joining, the new members had to adopt the so-called acquis communautaire which meant applying 80 000 pages of EU law, making their bureaucratic and administrative structures more efficient, strengthening judicial systems and tightening security at their eastern borders. | | | The Maastricht Treaty which came into force in 1993, says (in Article 49) that any European state which respects the principles of liberty, democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law may apply to join the Union. | | | Only Bulgaria and Romania, two candidate countries which belonged to the second wave of negotiations of February 2000 alongside Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia, were unable to accede in 2004 because they were not ready. |
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http://www.eubusiness.com/guides/enlargement
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| | The Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union |
| | This site is part of the Academy of European Law online, a joint partnership of the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law and the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute. | | | At the special summit of the European Council held in Brussels on 29 October 1993, the general objectives of European security were defined as the territorial integrity and political independence of the European Union, its democratic character, its economic stability and the stability of neighbouring regions. | | | The TEU and the Declaration on Western European Union attached to it lay much emphasis on the role of the WEU as an integral part of the development of the European Union. |
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http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol5/No2/art2-06.html
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| | EUROPA - The EU at a glance - The History of the European Union - 2003 |
| | EU leaders meet with representatives of the Balkan states and express their intention to include the latter in the European Union provided they promote democratic stability, the rule of law and economic development. | | | A referendum is held in Lithuania on the country joining the European Union. | | | A European Council is held in Brussels, Belgium.The summit focused on three issues: the follow-up to the Thessaloniki Council on asylum and immigration; economic policy from the point of view of the Growth Initiative; and external relations. |
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http://www.europa.eu.int/abc/history/2003/index_en.htm
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| | European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (TCE), commonly referred to as the European Constitution, is an international treaty intended to create a constitution for the European Union. | | | Autonomous decision making: member states have granted the European Commission power to issue decisions in certain areas such as competition law, State Aid control and liberalisation. | | | The European Union or the EU is an intergovernmental and supranational union of 25 democratic countries known as member states. |
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| | Enlargement of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | There are multiple Special member state territories, some of them are not fully covered by the EU treaties and apply EU law only partially, if at all. | | | Whether a country is European or not is a subject to political assessment by the EU institutions, but countries in the Council of Europe that fall onto the border (between Europe and Asia) all have a significant claim for EU membership (as shown with the accession of geographically Asian Cyprus). | | | Norway is also a member of the European Economic Area (the EU common market), the Schengen treaty and an associate member of the Western European Union as well as other areas normally considered as under the EU umbrella of treaties and agreements. |
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| | European Union |
| | You can find texts of or citations to the treaties, legislation in force, legislation in preparation, recent case law, the Directorates-General and EU agencies, and other sources of information. | | | By the Office of Press and Public Affairs of the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, DC. | | | It has links to databases of EU law and to many websites, including the websites of the major EU institutions. |
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http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/european.html
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| | Council of Europe |
| | Giovanni Di Stasi, President of the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, will pay an official visit to Tirana on 16 and 17 January to discuss the situation of local democracy in the country and the implementation of Congress recommendations. | | | European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) | | | At their first plenary meeting of 2006 on Wednesday 11 January, the Ministers’ Deputies adopted a new recommendation updating the Recommendation on the European Prison Rules, taking into account the recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights and the standards developed by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). |
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| | WEU [Definition] |
| | He was a physicist who became an important Spanish politician, and then served as NATO Secretary General in 1995 for 4 years before becoming Secretary General of both the Council of the European Union, and of the Western European Union.... | | | The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) and European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC), both established to function under the EU's CFSP pillar, are replacements to the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Western Union Satellite Centre which had been established to function in connection to the WEU. | | | The Union was established under that name by the Treaty on European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) in 1992. |
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| | The Federation of European Employers (FedEE) |
| | Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States (Themes in European Governance S.) | | | An investigation has been launched by the European Free Trade Association's regulatory body, ESA, to determine whether a Norwegian law requiring companies to reserve at least 40% of places on their boards for women amounts to an unlawful quota system under EEA equal opportunity rules. | | | The European Court of justice (EJC) has issued its decision in a case involving night duty by a teacher in a French residential care facility (Abdelkader Dellas and Others v Premier ministre and Others: C-14/04). |
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