European Union

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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Parts of European Union

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 +