A DICTIONARY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

This unique collection of data includes concise definitions and explanations on all aspects of the European Union. It explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities. It contains over 1,000 clear and succinct definitions, spelling out acronyms and abbreviations, arranged alphabetically and fully cross-referenced.

Among the 1,000 entries you can find explanations and background details on:

• accession negotiations
• atmospheric pollution
• Central European Free Trade Area
• common agricultural policy
• company law statute
• competition policy
• the euro
• Governance White Paper
• human rights
• MERCATOR
• Middle East
• OLAF - European Anti-Fraud Office
• refugee policy
• Schengen Agreement
• Treaty of Nice
• US-EC Declaration.

Lee McGowan is currently a Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast, where his teaching and research interests centre on three strands. These are: politics and policy-making in the European Union, and particularly the role of the European Commission as a quasi-judicial actor in the area of competition policy; the EU dimension of the devolution arrangements in Northern Ireland; and political extremism in Germany.

David Phinnemore is at present Senior Lecturer in European Integration at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast, where he teaches courses on contemporary Europe, EU institutions, the enlargement of the EU, and EU external relations.