Subject: European Union Basics (FAQ), Part8/8
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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
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                     ABOUT THE EUROPEAN UNION BASICS (FAQ)
                                       
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   This list was edited by Roland Siebelink and Bart Schelfhout
   <eubasics@allmansland.com[5]>. 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 >
      
      Nick Bernard <bernn@essex.ac.uk>
      
      Jozef van Brabant <Jozef_van_Brabant_at_UNHQ3@un.org >
      
      David Lauder <ddl1@unix.york.ac.uk >
      
      Jonathan Slater <jhs335@ulst.ac.uk >
      
      Hiski Haapoja <trhiha@uta.fi>
      
      Jorma Kyppo <jorma@jytko.jyu.fi >
      
      Tamio Nakamura <tn29@cornell.edu>
      
      Ole Villumsen <olevi@daimi.aau.dk >
      
      Carsten Quell <quell@zedat.fu-berlin.de >
      
      Hein Verkerk <heinv@xs4all.nl>
      
      Antero Aunesluoma <antero.aunesluoma@helsinki.fi>
      
      Joao Paulo Gomes <gpsm@tpone.telepac.pt >
      
      Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@dialup.francenet.fr >
      
      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>
      
      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 greater de
     pth in basic text books on the EU. Three excellent up to date works (
     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 an
     nual 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.
      
      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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