…relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as northern India…
…an economic and political association of certain European countries as a unit with internal free trade and common external tariffs…
…an economic and political association of certain European countries, incorporated since 1993 in the European Union…
…a grouping of the heads of government of the European Union countries, inaugurated in 1975, which meets two or three times a year…
…a compact kitchen with fitted cabinets and appliances, usually white…
…a group, appointed by agreement among the governments of the European Union, which initiates Union action and safeguards its treaties. It meets in Brussels…
…the Parliament of the European Union, originally established in 1952. From 1958 to 1979 it was composed of representatives drawn from the parliaments of member countries, but since 1979 direct elections have taken place every five years. Through the Single European Act (1987) it assumed a degree of sovereignty over national parliaments. It meets in Strasbourg, and its committee is in Brussels…
…the standard time based on the mean solar time at the meridian 15° E, used in central and western continental Europe. It is one hour ahead of GMT…
…an organization set up in 1975 to coordinate the national space programmes of the collaborating countries. It is based in Paris…
…the lost language from which all Indo-European languages derive…
…a treaty providing for the establishment of a single European market from 1 January 1993, and giving greater powers to the European Parliament. It came into force on 1 July 1987…
…a bank set up in 1958 by the Treaty of Rome to finance capital investment projects promoting the balanced development of members of the European Community. It is based in Luxembourg…
…a monetary system inaugurated by the European Community in 1979 to coordinate and stabilize the exchange rates of the currencies of member countries, as a prelude to monetary union. It is based on the use of the Exchange Rate Mechanism…
…a European Union programme intended to work towards full economic unity in Europe based on the phased introduction of a common currency (the euro). The programme was announced in 1989; the second stage came into effect on 1 January 1994 under the terms of the Maastricht Treaty, and in 2002 the euro replaced the currencies of twelve European Union countries (see euro)…
