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  Languages of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the Irish language had not been one of the official languages of the European Union prior to 13 June 2005, it is the Republic of Ireland's first official language, and has minority-language status in Northern Ireland.
Though Catalan-Valencian, Galician and Basque are not nation-wide official languages in Spain, as co-official languages in the respective regions they are eligible to benefit from official use in EU institutions under the terms of the 13 June 2005 resolution of the Council of the European Union.
On 11 December 1990, the use of Catalan was the subject of a European Parliament Resolution (resolution A3-169/90 on languages in the (European) Community and the situation of Catalan (OJ-C19, 28 January 1991).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union   (1307 words)

  
 Wikipedia: European Union
The European Union or EU is an international organisation of European states, established by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht treaty).
Major issues concerning the European Union at the moment include its enlargement south and east (see below), the European constitution proposed by the Convention, the Union's relationship with the United States of America and participation in the Euro by those member states currently outside the Eurozone.
The original impetus for the founding of (what was later to become) the European Union was the desire to rebuild Europe after the disastrous events of World War II, and to prevent Europe from ever again falling victim to the scourge of war.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/e/eu/european_union.html   (2267 words)

  
 European Union
The European Union is the world's largest confederation of independent states, established under that name in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht Treaty).
For example, in the United Kingdom one poll suggested that around 50% of the population are indifferent to the European Union and 20% voted for parties that wanted to withdraw from the EU in the 2004 EU elections.
At the December 2005 European Council, which is a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of the EU member states, a decision was taken on how it should allocate the EU budget for the next seven years (2007–2013).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/eu/european_union.html   (1826 words)

  
 European Union article - European Union other official names Detail Motto English European symbols ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The European Union or EU is an international organisation of 25 European states, established by the Treaty on European Union (the Maastricht treaty).
Agreement on a final draft of the European constitution was reached on the 18 June 2004 at an Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels and now awaits ratification by the EU member states.
The term European Community (or Communities) was used for the group of members prior to the establishment of the European Union.
www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/European_Union   (3179 words)

  
 Indo-European languages Encyclopedia
Of the top 20 contemporary languages in terms of speakers according to SIL Ethnologue, 12 are Indo-European: Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi and Urdu, accounting for over 1.6 billion native speakers.
Tocharian languages, extinct tongues of the Tocharians, extant in two dialects, attested from roughly the 6th century.
Membership of languages in the same language family is determined by the presence of shared retentions, i.e., features of the proto-language (or reflexes of such features) that cannot be explained better by chance or borrowing (convergence).
www.hallencyclopedia.com /topic/Indo-European_languages.html   (3365 words)

  
 Who were Illyrians
Indo-European is the name of a family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken over most of Europe and in much of Southwest and South Asia; from the second half of the 15th century the Indo-European tongues have spread to most other inhabited parts of the world.
The principal language of the Italic group is Latin, originally the speech of the city of Rome and the ancestor of the modern Romance languages: Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, etc. The earliest Latin inscriptions apparently date from the 6th century BC, with literature beginning in the 3rd century.
Old Persian was the administrative language of the early Achaemenian dynasty dating from the 6th century BC; and an eastern Middle Indo-Aryan dialect was the language of the chancellery of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in India in the mid-3rd century BC.
www.geocities.com /iliria1   (15583 words)

  
 European Union Legal Materials
Accession to the European Union of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden, June 24, 1994, 1994 O.J. (C 241) (Fourth Accession Treaty).
Treaty concerning the accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic to the European Union (16 April 2003)
Five EU institutions are involved in the legislative process: the Commission, the Council of the European Union, the Parliament, the Committee of the Regions, and the Economic and Social Committee.
www.law.columbia.edu /library/Research_Guides/internat_law/eu   (8382 words)

  
 GlobaLex - European Union Legal Materials: An Infrequent User’s Guide
The European Commission is roughly equivalent to the executive branch of the U.S. government, particularly the Office of the President of the United States and the cabinet-level agencies.
A case may be brought in any of the official languages of the EU and one language will be designated the language of the case (generally the language of the national court referring the case or that of a party to the case).
The national court determines that a question of European Union law is relevant to the resolution of the case before it and submits the question of European Union law to the Court for resolution.
www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/European_Union.htm   (6807 words)

  
 UCB Libraries | GovPubs | European Union
European Union in the World an information portal on the external relations of the EU with information on foreign policies, enlargement [of the EU], humanitarian aid, external trade, development policy, and external cooperation programs.
Official Documents including Green and White Papers, reports, communications, memorandums, action plans, guidelines, and work programs, the Bulletin of the European Union, and the RAPID press release database.
European Union: Delegation of the European Commission to the United States offers information about researching business in the European Union, the relationship between the European Union and the United States, and other information.
ucblibraries.colorado.edu /govpubs/eu/eu.htm   (1656 words)

  
 Romance Branch of the Indo-European Family
All Romance languages are descendants of Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people in the Roman Empire, a vast territory that covered a good portion of Europe, England, Northern Africa and portions of the Middle East.
In the 14th century, the term Romance meant "vernacular language of France" (as opposed to Latin), from Old French romanz "verse narrative," originally an adverb, "in the vernacular language," from Vulgar Latin *romanice scribere "to write in a Romance language." The term was extended in the 17th century to include other languages derived from Latin.
The phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of all Romance languages are predominantly derived from Vulgar Latin.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/january/RomanceBranch.html   (906 words)

  
 European Union
The European Union (EU) is an supranational organization currently composed of 25 European countries who have decided to cooperate on a number of issues (economic, monetary, security, etc.) and adopt uniform laws.
The Council of the European Union, representing the Member States, acts on Commission proposals and is the final legislative authority.
The European Parliament is composed of Representatives directly elected by the populations of the Member States.
www.ll.georgetown.edu /intl/guides/EuropeanUnion.cfm   (2884 words)

  
 European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The European Union has many activities, the most important being a common single market, consisting of a customs union, a single currency (though some member states retain their own), a Common Agricultural Policy and a Common Fisheries Policy.
in 1990: the European Union territory and population was effectively enlarged when East and West Germany were united.
The Community is an actual body, including the European institutions (European Parliament, Council of Ministers, European Commission), whilst the European Union is a less tangible grouping of institutions and agreements.
www.indexlistus.de /keyword/European_Union.php   (2684 words)

  
 ADR.eu
Consequently, the general impression of the name protected by the prior right is not apparent in the domain name, and does not relate to the domain name as applied for.
The letter combination or word ES is a correct transcription of the character and in the Hungarian language which is one of the official languages of the European Union.
The Respondent argues that the letter combination ES is the correct transcription of the special character and in the Hungarian language which is an official language of the European Union.
www.adreu.eurid.eu /adr/decisions/decision.php?dispute_id=1459   (1824 words)

  
 EUROPA - Newsletter - Issue 70, 1 December 2005
This European consensus on development would provide, for the first time in 50 years of development cooperation, a common development policy that the European Union – the 25 Member States and the Commission alike – supports and promotes as a global player and as a global partner.
At the official ceremony, which took place in Strasbourg on 16 November, the leaders of the European institutions recalled that this flag, the emblem of the values shared by the Council of Europe and the European Union, is the symbol of our continent's 'unity beyond our frontiers'.
The introductory texts are available in all 20 official languages of the Union as a testimony to the Union's commitment to communicate with its citizens in their own native tongue.
europa.eu.int /newsletter/index_en.htm   (5190 words)

  
 BRUSSELS
Currently the city houses the governmental organs of the European Union (UE) : the Council and the Committee.
As the capital and independent region of Belgium, Brussels is a cosmopolitan city with a lively artistic and cultural life and it is also a first-rate political and financial center on a world scale.
Language: French and Dutch; two of the official national languages are spoken in the city.
english.brussel.info   (536 words)

  
 BBC Education - Languages
Danish is a North Germanic language, on the same branch of the Indo-European family tree as Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
It's also the second official spoken language of the Faroe Islands (with Faroese) and Greenland (with Greenlandic) and is officially recognised in the bordering area of South Schleswig in Germany.
As with all languages, modern Danish is influenced and enriched by foreign words.
www.bbc.co.uk /education/languages/european_languages/languages/danish.shtml   (191 words)

  
 European Union - Wikipedia
The Union was pitten thegither for cultural an economic ettles.
Sign in the entrance o the European Pairliament building in Brussels screivit in the 20 offeecial leids used in the European Union as of July 2006.
European Union, as stipulatit in the amended EEC Council: Regulation No 1 determining the leids tae be uisit bi the European Economic Community o 1958-04-15,
sco.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Union   (300 words)

  
 ICANN | Proposed Action Plan on .info Country Names | 9 October 2001
While realizing that the topic of geographical and geopolitical concepts in the domain name system is part of the ongoing WIPO-2 Report discussions, GAC participants became concerned over the more immediate situation of the registration of many country names during the.info "sunrise period." The topic was discussed at the GAC's September 2001 meeting in Montevideo.
The list provided to Afilias contained both English-language country and distinct economy names, as listed on the ISO 3166-1 standard, and their equivalents in "official" languages.
(The name of the "European Union" was also added in light of the Board resolution 00.74.) A series of rules was employed to translate this list of names to a form consistent with the "host names" format used in domain names.
www.icann.org /montevideo/action-plan-country-names-09oct01.htm   (1560 words)

  
 Swedish in Sweden and in the European Union
Thus the Swedish language would be less frequently used in the contexts that form the backbone of national public debate and the functioning of society.
EU translations are required to be as identical as possible in all language versions, with sentences always corresponding to one another, etc. This makes it difficult for Swedish translators to adapt their texts to how the Swedish language is actually used.
In its draft action programme, the Language Council stated that "Ambitious aims for Swedish within the EU mean that considerable resources must continue to be invested in interpreters and translators." And that "...interpretation into and from Swedish must be available at meetings of all bodies which include non-staff members, i.e.
www.aiic.net /ViewPage.cfm/article182.htm   (2586 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Belgium
The language of provinces of West Vlaanderen, Oost Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Limburg, Vlaams-Brabant, and the bilingual part (10% to 20%) of Brussels.
Official language in provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liège, Luxembourg, Brabant-Walloon, southern hills, and the bilingual part of Brussels.
Official language in Liège Province, cantons of Eupen and Sankt-Vith, municipalities: Eupen, Kelmis, Lontzen, Raeren, Amel, Bnlingen, Bntchenbach, Sankt-Vith, and Burg-Reuland.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Belgium   (456 words)

  
 NYU Law - Library, European Union Research
Bulletin of the European Union (formerly Bulletin of the European Communities) is useful for tracking the legislative process and gathering citations to documents, but it is slow to be published.
Official citations As a general rule, the basic Treaties are published in the Official Journal, C Series.
Official Journal C Series periodically publishes an issue containing the operative portion of new judgments and announcement of new cases registered with the Court.
www.law.nyu.edu /library/euguide.html   (6363 words)

  
 Europa - Information Society -
The single European emergency phone number can now be called from any phone, fixed or mobile, across the EU 25, but in practice, the 112 number is not working as well as it should.
Some countries have not put in place the resources to handle the number of languages required, in others the right technology is not in place to locate cell phone callers geographically, and in many countries people are just not aware that the service exists.
Developing a successful European Information Society is at the very heart of the EU's "Lisbon Goal" of becoming the world's most dynamic and competitive economy by 2010.
europa.eu.int /information_society/index_en.htm   (1233 words)

  
 Tourist and travel information about Brussels (Brussel - Bruxelles) in Belgium.
Today the name Brussels stands for an agglomeration of 19 communes forming one of the three Regions of the federal Belgian state; the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium; the headquarters of the French and Flemish Communities.
Brussels also has an important international vocation : as the European capital the city is home to the European Commission and to the Council of ministers of the European Union (EU).
This means that both French and Dutch are the official languages of the city.
www.trabel.com /brussels.htm   (330 words)

  
 European Union travel guide - Wikitravel
The European Union [1] (abbreviated "EU") is an organization of European countries which delegate some of their sovereignty to common international institutions.
The idea was first proposed by the French foreign minister Robert Schuman in a speech in 1950, which resulted in the first agreements in 1951 that formed the base for the European Union.
The largest airports in the European Union are in London, Frankfurt, and Paris.
wikitravel.org /en/European_Union   (1201 words)

  
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