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European Union
| Name: | European Union |
| Description: | The European Union is a unique economic and political partnership between 27 European countries. It has delivered half a century of peace, stability, and prosperity, helped raise living standards, launched a single European currency, and is progressively building a single Europe-wide market in which people, goods, services, and capital move among Member States as freely as within one country. The EU provides funding and grants for a broad range of projects and programs.
The EU was created in the aftermath of the second world war. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: countries that trade with one another are economically interdependent and will thus avoid conflict. Since then, the union has developed into a huge single market with the euro as its common currency. What began as a purely economic union has evolved into an organization spanning all areas, from development aid to environmental policy. |
| Synonym(s): | EU |
| Abbreviation: | EU |
| Super-category: | Government granting agency |
| URL: | http://europa.eu/index_en.htm |
| Id: | nlx_67420 |
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| Abbrev | EU + |
| CurationStatus | uncurated + |
| DefiningCitation | http://europa.eu/index_en.htm + |
| Definition | The European Union is a unique economic an … The European Union is a unique economic and political partnership between 27 European countries. It has delivered half a century of peace, stability, and prosperity, helped raise living standards, launched a single European currency, and is progressively building a single Europe-wide market in which people, goods, services, and capital move among Member States as freely as within one country. The EU provides funding and grants for a broad range of projects and programs.
The EU was created in the aftermath of the second world war. The first steps were to foster economic cooperation: countries that trade with one another are economically interdependent and will thus avoid conflict. Since then, the union has developed into a huge single market with the euro as its common currency. What began as a purely economic union has evolved into an organization spanning all areas, from development aid to environmental policy. m development aid to environmental policy. |
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| Id | nlx_67420 + |
| Label | European Union + |
| ModifiedDate | 14 June 2011 + |
| SuperCategory | Government granting agency + |
| Synonym | EU + |




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