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- Summary: This file is part of an eight-part posting containing basic
- information about the European Union and other related or unrelated
- European political organisations. It is hoped to serve both as background
- information for those wishing to discuss European politics on the
- talk.politics.european-union newsgroup, and as a general reference for
- anyone concerned with politics in Europe.
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- EU Basics FAQ: About this FAQ list
- [aboutEU]
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- many errors in the names of people and parties quoted in this FAQ. The
- latest version of the file is available at the following locations:
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- talk.politics.european-union, eunet.politics,
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- access the MIT archives by mail server as well. Send
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- Author, contributors and sources
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- This list was edited by Roland Siebelink and Bart Schelfhout
- <eubasics@allmansland.com[4]>. Please contact us by e-mail if you have any
- questions, corrections, contributions or remarks about this list.
-
- Several people contributed to the information contained in this list, thus
- making it more complete, accurate and up-to-date. I would like to thank
- specifically:
-
- Malte Lewan <cml@df.lth.se>
-
- Alan Fraser Reekie <aree@dg13.cec.be >
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- Nick Bernard <bernn@essex.ac.uk>
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- Jozef van Brabant <Jozef_van_Brabant_at_UNHQ3@un.org >
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- David Lauder <ddl1@unix.york.ac.uk >
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- Jonathan Slater <jhs335@ulst.ac.uk >
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- Hiski Haapoja <trhiha@uta.fi>
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- Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi >
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- Tamio Nakamura <tn29@cornell.edu>
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- Ole Villumsen <olevi@daimi.aau.dk >
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- Carsten Quell <quell@zedat.fu-berlin.de >
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- Hein Verkerk <heinv@xs4all.nl>
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- Antero Aunesluoma <antero.aunesluoma@helsinki.fi>
-
- Joao Paulo Gomes <gpsm@tpone.telepac.pt >
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- Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@dialup.francenet.fr >
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- Achim Scheve <Achim_Scheve@mk2.maus.sauerland.de >
-
- Jim Jackson <alba@tardis.ed.ac.uk >
-
- Ferdinand Spitzer <spitzer@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at >
-
- Willy Debacker <willy.debacker@ping.be>
-
- Alex E.H. Ng <alexng@io.org>
-
- Magnus Boivie <95900490mb@nene.ac.uk>
-
- Very helpful was the contribution made by Frangois Thunus
- <thunus@innet.lu>
-
- A major quality check of the whole list was performed by Richard Corbett
- at <rcorbett@gw.europarl.org> from the European Parliament who sent me
- many minor corrections as well as some major rewrites. Richard is an
- authority in the field as he is one of the authors of the most commonly
- used reference-book on the European Parliament (see below). His work has
- been endorsed by the President of the European Parliament as «the
- most comprehensive survey available on the structure, working methods and
- powers of the European Parliamentµ, and by Neil Kinnock (European
- Commissioner whose wife is a British MEP (PES) as «the most thumbed
- book in the Kinnock householdµ.
-
- And finally, Andrew Macmullen <a.l.macmullen@durham.ac.uk>, who helped me
- a lot in sending many minor corrections and additional information. He
- also gave some additional information:
-
-
-
- «Most of the infomation contained here could be found in grea
- ter depth in basic text books on the EU. Three excellent up to date w
- orks (and all available in paperback editions) are:
-
- NUGENT (N.) 1994. The Government and Politics of the European Union.
- London, Macmillan.
-
- DINAN (D.) 1994. An Ever Closer Union? London, Macmillan.
-
- ARCHER (C.) 1994. Organizing Europe: the Institutions of Integration.
- Edward Arnold.
-
- The leading academic journal carrying excellent material on all asp
- ects of the EU is, in spite of its rather out-dated title: Journal of
- Common Studies (Blackwells, Oxford). This includes an invaluable ann
- ual supplement The European Union Annual Review of Activites.»
-
- Some of the (paper) sources I used to find the answers to the questions in
- this list are:
-
- WESTLAKE (M.) 1994. A modern guide to the European Parliament. London,
- Pinter, 302pp.
-
- NOEL (E.) 1994. Working Together--The Institutions of the European
- Community. Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European
- Communities, 66pp.
-
- STEIN (M.) & VON WITZLEBEN (A.), eds., 1994. Europe Info. Directory of
- important information sources in the European Union. Luxembourg, Office
- for Official Publications of the European Communities, 161p.
-
- CORBETT (R.), JACOBS (F.) & SHACKLETON (M.) 1995. The European
- Parliament. Cartermill, 3rd ed.
-
- EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, 1994.Fact Sheets on the European Parliament and the
- activities of the European Union. Brussels-Luxembourg, European
- Parliament/Directorate-General for Research, 473pp.
-
- The Treaties of Paris, Rome and Maastricht and the Single European Act.
-
- Various brochures published by the European Commission and the European
- Parliament.
-
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