European Union Resources

INSTITUTIONS

• European Union
  
• The Council of the European Union
  
• EU Presidency
  The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is rotated amongst the EU member states and changes every six months. France holds presidency from July 1 to December 31, 2008.The Czech Republic will hold presidency from January 1 to June 30, 2009.
  
• The European Parliament
  
• European Commission
  Brussels
  Washington D.C.
  
• Court of Justice of the European Communities
  
• European Court of Auditors
• European Ombudsman
  
• European Data Protection Supervisor
• The European Investment Bank
  The European Investment Fund
  
• European Central Bank
  The ECB is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The ECB's main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area. The euro area comprises the 13 European Union countries that have introduced the euro since 1999. Cyprus and Malta adopted the euro as their new currency on January 1, 2008.
  EURO and Exchange Rates
  
• European Economic and Social Committee
• Committee of the Regions

OTHER REFERENCE

• The Treaty of Lisbon
• Celebrating Europe! 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome
• EU in the US
• EU on YouTube, sharing the sites and sounds of Europe
  This review of the past 50 years reveals an unprecedented success story: what began as the EEC on 25 March 1957 has grown into a union of 27 member states which, after so many painful years of war, expulsion and suffering, now unites the continent in peace and ensures a level of prosperity and stability previously unknown in the history of this continent.
• 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
• The European Cultural Season (July 1 to December 31 2008) is organized by the ministries of Foreign and European Affairs and of Culture and Communications, with support of the General Secretariat of the French Presidency of the European Union and of the ministries of National Education and of Health, and by Culturesfrance.