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unusual facts about the European Union



Julián García Vargas

After leaving office he served as the special envoy of the European Union in Mostar (Bosnia) from November 1995 to April 1996 for the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement.

Motorised quadricycle

In 1992, the European Union published Directive 92/61/EEC which considered that quadricycles fell into the same category as mopeds.


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2003 in the European Union

11 May - The electorate of Lithuania votes to join the European Union, becoming the first former Soviet republic to do so.

Accession of Iceland to the European Union

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos, who then held the Presidency of the European Union, has said that the Icesave dispute does not impact Iceland's application.

Andrew Doyle

As part of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2013, he hosted a conference in Dublin Castle with EU member states Parliamentary Agriculture Committee Chairs from all 27 countries, engaging parliamentarians with speakers such as the EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Dacian Ciolos and the EU Commissioner for Fisheries, Maria Damanaki.

Bahovitsa

In February 2012, Great Wall Motors together with the Bulgarian company Litex Motors, opened the first Chinese automobile factory within the European Union in Bahovitsa.

Bradley Shavit Artson

He is also Dean of the Zecharias Frankel College at the University of Potsdam, Germany, ordaining Conservative/Masorti rabbis for the European Union under the religious supervision of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

Britta Böhler

She is a member of the committees on European Cooperation, Finance, Justice, Agriculture, Nature and food quality, Social affairs and employment, Defense, Development cooperation and housing, Spatial planning and the environment / housing and integration, as well as the committee on Justice and Home Affairs Council, which oversees Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters of the European Union,.

Capital of Culture

European Capital of Culture, formerly European City of Culture, title awarded annually in the European Union,

Caribbean Community

Within the agreement under Article 234, the European Court of Justice also carries dispute resolution mechanisms between CARIFORUM and the European Union states.

CEBS

Committee of European Banking Supervisors, a former independent advisory group on banking supervision in the European Union

CETA

Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: a proposed free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union.

China-EU School of Law

European members of the Advisory Board are: former President of the European Court of Justice, Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias; Dean of the China Europe International Business School, Rolf D. Cremer; and former head of the European Union Delegation to China and Mongolia, Serge Abou.

Conservative Europe Group

Founded to promote the UK's entry to the European Economic Community (now the European Union), CEG was launched in May 1967 as the European Forum, with David Baker as the founding chairman.

Ducati Corse

This comes at a time when advertising of tobacco sponsorship has become illegal in the European Union and other major teams have withdrawn from relationships with tobacco companies, for example Yamaha have ended their five year relationship with Fortuna/Gauloises.

Dytiscus latissimus

The species is listed on Annex II and Annex IV of the European Union Habitats Directive; the latter gives it strict protection within the EU member countries.

EAEC

European Atomic Energy Community, an international organisation which is legally distinct from the European Union, but has the same membership

Embassy of Turkey, Berlin

On October 30, 2012, a new embassy building, constructed on the site of the destroyed building, was opened with a ceremony attended by high ranked politicians such as the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu, Minister for the European Union Egemen Bağış and Foreign Minister of Germany Guido Westerwelle as well as some 1,500 guests.

EUROP

The European Robotics Platform, an initiative to improve the competitive situation of the European Union in the field of robotics.

European Charter on Human Rights

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union which has some limited application within the European Union after the European Court of Justice decided that, in essence, the treaties establishing the European Union does not empower it to accede to the European Convention on Human Rights.

European Court

the European Court of Justice (ECJ), an institution of the European Union (EU) for the resolution of disputes under EU law, based in Luxembourg

European Genetics Foundation

The ESGM began receiving funding from the European Union and from other international organizations including the European Society of Human Genetics, the Federation of European Biochemical Societies, the March of Dimes and UNESCO.

European History Network

The task of the Working Group is to increase both knowledge and understanding of the European integration process and the history of the European Union.

Europhobia

Euroscepticism, opposition among Europeans against European integration and the European Union.

Evgeny Vinokurov

The role of the enclaves as a generator of conflicts between motherland and surrounding states (e.g., Britain and Spain in the case of Gibraltar, Russia and the European Union in the case of Kaliningrad, Spain and Morocco in the case of Ceuta and Melilla) is of particular interest.

Florence Benoît-Rohmer

She is also keen in the development of the protection of human rights within the European Union, including through the proclamation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and adherence of the Union to the European Convention on human rights, writing a regular column on human rights in the European Union to the quarterly Journal of European Law.

Gaston Thorn

In 1980 Thorn was chosen as President of the Commission of the European Communities (now called the European Union), in succession to Roy Jenkins.

Guido Rings

He has been external examiner for Birkbeck College, London, and consultant for the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union.

Harmonisation

Harmonisation of law, the process of establishing common laws and standards across the European Union

Horst Posdorf

Posdorf is one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

Ilie Cazac

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat said Igor Smirnov, Transnistria's separatist leader, freed Cazac as a result of ongoing negotiations about Moldova and Transnistria that include officials from Russia, the United States and the European Union.

International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles

The European Union has for many years had a formalised system of Privacy legislation, which is regarded as more rigorous than that found in many other areas of the world.

Kleinmaischeid

Kleinmaischeid is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and was the centre point of the European Union from 1 May 2004 until 31 December 2006.

Lamfalussy

Lamfalussy process, an approach to the development of financial service industry regulations used by the European Union.

Lunca de Sus

With financial support of the European Union became completed by November 2009 the stream regulation and flood control works on Gârbea Creek.

Maria Borelius

Maria is a member of the advisory council of Open Europe, a European think tank with offices in London, Brussels and Berlin promoting ideas for economic and political reform of the European Union.

Nila Madhab Panda

He is also the Founder and Executive Director of the India Screenwriting Lab, which focuses on creating quality scripts for Indian Cinema, quality children cinema with the British Council, The royal Netherlands embassy and Saregama, the European Union Media International Programme, Eon Productions, Goethe Institute in Germany, Cinekid in Amsterdam, Children’s Film Society, India.

Paul Nuttall

In January 2012 he was interviewed on the Alex Jones radio show in which he warned about the European Union.

Philips Pavilion

The European Union funded a virtual recreation of the Philips Pavilion, which was chaired by Vincenzo Lombardi from the University of Turin.

Political Security Directorate

Daraa branch: Atef Najib (2011), the European Union sanctioned him for being responsible for the violence against protesters in Daraa during the Syrian uprising.

Richard Benyon

In 2012 while Wildlife Minister he refused a request from other MPs that possession of carbofuran, a deadly poison used to kill raptors that is banned in Canada and the European Union, should be made a criminal offence.

Silverberg

Kristen Silverberg, U.S. ambassador to the European Union from 2008 to 2009

Stability Pact

# The Stability and Growth Pact of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union

Sylvia Bourdon

Bourdon later sued the European Union over its decision to call the single currency the Euro instead of the Ecu, the name inscribed in the Maastricht treaty.

The European Union as a Small Power: After the Post-Cold War

The book received warm reviews from Robert Kagan: The great strength of Asle's Toje Absorbing, detailed and much-Needed study is to show What role the European Union Might Be Expected to play under multipolarity .

TTIP

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, proposed free trade area between the United States and the European Union

Ulrich Beck

On 15 September 2010 Beck supported the new initiative Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the effort to federalize the European Union (EU).

Valdis Dombrovskis

Dombrovskis was also one of six Members of the European Parliament participating in the European Union's observer mission in Togo for the October 2007 Togolese parliamentary election.

William Kennard

William E. Kennard was the first U.S. Ambassador to the European Union to work with the institutions created by the EU’s Lisbon Treaty, including the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the President of the European Council, and the European External Action Service.

World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

It should be noted, however, that the impending Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union (likely to be ratified in 2015) will see Canada apply all of the provisions of UNECE standards as 'allowable alternatives' to the CMVSS standards; Canada currently applies 14 of the 17 ECE main standards as allowable alternatives - the exceptions at this point relate to motorcycle controls and displays, motorcycle mirrors, and electronic stability control for passenger cars.