European Union Info Page!

I'm an International Law student at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. I'm a fifth year student. As a former European law student I want to dedicate this page to the European Union (EU), because I know it's very hard to find usefull information about the EU.

The European Union, formerly known as the European Community (EC) has got fifteen member states:
Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Spain, Austria, Italy, Portugal and Greece.
There are ten important institutions in the European Union:


The European Union is a cooperative framework linking fifteen European countries. These countries cooperate in a number of fields, known as pillars:
  • first pillar: Economic Co-operation
  • second pillar: Foreign Policy and Security
  • third pillar: Justice and Home Affairs
    For information on the different institutions and policies of the European Union you can chech the link to the official European Union Homepage below. This page has a very good search engine, so you can look for all kinds of documents (for example directives) on numerous subjects.
    European Union Homepage.
    For the search engine: Search Engine of the EU Homepage
    For the legal databank of the EU: Legal databank

    For information on the Treaty establishing the European Community (Treaty of Rome, 1957), Treaty on the European Union (Treaty of Maastricht, 1992) and the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) with comments on the Treaties, you can use the following links:
    Treaty of Rome
    Treaty of Maastricht
    Treaty of Amsterdam
    For a good summary of the Amsterdam Treaty go to the following link:
    Amsterdam Treaty

    Very good information can be found on several University sites.
    Universities in Europe:
    Mannheim University EU Information
    Oxford University EU Information
    Leiden University EU Information
    Tilburg University EU Information(in Dutch!)

    Universities in the USA:
    Yale University EU Information
    UC Berkeley EU Information
    University of Chicago EU Information

    You can find pointers to resources of interest, for those researching and studying the European Union, at the following pages:
    Eurostudies
    European Movement

    Specific Issues:
    Social and Employment issues
    The Euro
    Agenda2000

    Any comments?? me: afolwaij@hotmail.com

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