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The European Union at a glance
The aim of these fact sheets is to providethose new to the subject with an overviewof the process of European integration andthe
European Parliament’s role in thisdevelopment
.New fact sheets on topical issues and thedevelopments of the last few years have recentlyappeared online, for example: the institutionalreforms undertaken in preparation for theaccession of Bulgaria and Romania; the newfinancial perspective; gender equality; asylum,and immigration policy; management of externalborders; judicial cooperation in civil and criminalmatters; sports policy; the Lisbon strategy;the European neighbourhood policy (ENP);the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan andGeorgia) and central Asia.With access to
around 165 fact sheets
, readerswill find that this is one of the best sources of information about the Union’s institutions andpolicies.The content of these fact sheets covers
six mainareas
: how the EU works, citizens’Europe, theinternal market, common policies, economic andmonetary union and the EU’s external relations.Regular updates are made to the English,French and German versions of the fact sheetson the European Parliament’s website(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/).
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