Category: The European Union’s Institutions,Identity, and Va

As for the first, the Community institutions have exclusive powers to shape the Community’s trade relations with third countries. This means that, in discussions with the United States about, for instance, the import into Europe...

All of these matters will be dealt with later. European Union literature makes frequent reference to the Treaties of Maastricht (1992), Amsterdam (1997), and Nice (2000), named after the town in which they were signed, in the...

As mentioned in above, it added the concept of a monetary union with the creation of a European System of Central Banks (ESCB) and the European Central Bank (ECB), both in charge of conducting the Union’s monetary policy.4 It...

Explaining fifty four years of European Union history is a daunting task. In this introductory text I will focus first on Union pillars, institutions, and competences, and on differences in integration; second on the nature of a...