Institutions
These guide the work of the EU and are legally binding.
What are the treaties on the functioning of the European Union?
This term is used to describe states deepening cooperation across a multitude of policy areas.
What is integration?
Italy has proposed keeping migrants in processing centers in this neighboring country.
What is Albania?
These two European leaders have attempted to create a plan for European defense of Ukraine amidst the US's perceived retreat.
Who are Emmanuel Macron and Kier Starmer?
What we now know as the European Union was first known as this.
What is the European Coal and Steel Community?
This Institution is the directly elected body which co-legislates policies proposed by the European Commission.
What is the European Parliament?
This term describes which political body has authority over a given policy area?
What is competence?
While Italian is the official language of Italy, there are twelve legally recognized additional languages spoken in the country including distinct languages from these two islands.
What are Sardinia and Sicily?
In 2024 the EU signed this trade deal with a number of Latin American countries to expand free trade between the blocs.
What is the Mercosur agreement?
This IR term which describes the importance of the nation state is considered one of the building blocks for the creation of the EU.
What is the Westphalian system?
This Institution ensures laws and policies “meet the spirit of the treaties".
What is the European Court of Justice?
This is the idea that once member states begin integrating in certain policy areas, further integration will continue in related sectors. The ‘invisible hand’ of integration.
What is spillover?
What is Saudi Arabia?
This technology company is currently caught in a corruption scandal within the European Parliament.
What is Huawei?
This 768 king is considered one of the first men to attempt to unify Europe
Who is Charlemagne?
This Institution is the intergovernmental body, organized thematically by policy area composed of national ministers which co-legislates policies proposed by the European Commission.
What is the Council of Ministers or European Council?
What is the Acquis Communautaire?
Fabrizia, the largest US maker of this signature Italian drink could face up to $70,000 is tariffs to import ingredients needed from Italy.
What is Limoncello?
The EU's defense strategy for Ukraine nicknamed steel "________" is intended to bolster Ukraine's defense making it "indigestible for potential invaders".
What is porcupine?
This treaty from the 1980s is considered one of the most important for European integration giving us things like the single market, and laying the groundwork for the Euro.
What is the Single European Act?
This Institution is composed of European heads of state and provides leadership and direction to the EU without any formal legislative powers.
What is the Council of the European Union?
What is fiscal policy?
Like other parliamentary democracies, Italy has a prime minister and president. The current president of Italy has held the office for ten years, the longest in Italian history.
Who is Sergio Mattarella?
This woman recently assumed the post of High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Who is Kaja Kallas from Estonia?
These two countries joined the Schengen area in 2024.
What are Bulgaria and Romania?