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EU institutions

  • Research Briefing

    The EU institutions: a brief guide

    Monday, 13 June, 2016

    This Commons Library brief explains the basic features of five major EU institutions: the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the EU, the European Council and the Court of Justice of the EU.

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
  • Research Briefing

    EU Referendum: analysis of the UK’s new EU Settlement

    Thursday, 26 May, 2016

    This Commons Library briefing looks at the new Settlement for the United Kingdom within the European Union agreed at the European Council on 17-19 February 2016. The Settlement consists of seven texts: a Decision and a Statement of Heads of State or Government and five Declarations.

    • Research Briefing
    • Economic situation
    • Economy
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • Europe
    • Finance
    • Government
    • Parliament
    • The EU
  • Research Briefing

    Brexit and the UN Security Council

    Thursday, 19 May, 2016

    This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the competing arguments about the possible effects of leaving the EU on the UK's permanent membership of the UN Security Council. The UK is one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. Would leaving the EU strengthen the UK’s position in the UN, have no direct effect, or result in a loss of legitimacy for the UN? What if it resulted in Scotland leaving the UK? Views differ; but the difficulty of amending the UN Charter makes any change to the permanent membership of the Security Council unlikely.

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • International organisations
    • The EU
    • Brexit
  • Research Briefing

    A short guide to the EU referendum

    Tuesday, 17 May, 2016

    This Commons Library guide summarises a selection of our EU referendum related briefings. It describes the referendum process and considers the potential implications of either result following June’s vote.

    • Research Briefing
    • Elections
    • EU institutions
    • Brexit
  • Research Briefing

    EU referendum: how the result will be declared

    Thursday, 12 May, 2016

    This Commons Library briefing paper summarises how the result will be declared following the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU on Thursday 23 June 2016.

    • Research Briefing
    • Elections
    • EU institutions
    • UK elections
    • Brexit
  • Research Briefing

    The EU referendum campaign

    Wednesday, 27 April, 2016

    This House of Commons Library briefing includes information about the timetable for the EU referendum campaign. It also includes information on the rules that apply to campaign activity.

    • Research Briefing
    • Elections
    • EU institutions
  • Research Briefing

    The European Union: a guide to terminology, procedures and sources – House of Commons Background Paper

    Tuesday, 19 April, 2016

    This Note aims to clarify some of the terminology used to describe the institutions, laws and procedures of the European Union. It also provides links to useful sources of information on the EU.

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
  • Research Briefing

    EU external agreements: EU and UK procedures

    Tuesday, 29 March, 2016

    The EU concludes many international agreements with third States or international organisations. This Commons Library briefing looks at how the EU negotiates these agreements and how the UK scrutinises and ratifies them.

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • International law
    • International organisations
    • The EU
  • Debate Pack

    Debate Pack: European Affairs

    Tuesday, 23 February, 2016

    The House of Commons Library prepares a briefing in hard copy and/or online for most non-legislative debates in the Chamber and Westminster Hall other than half-hour debates.  Debate Packs are produced quickly after the announcement of parliamentary business. They are intended to provide a summary or overview of the issue being debated and identify relevant briefings and useful documents, including press and parliamentary material. More detailed briefing can be prepared for Members on request to the Library.

    • Debate Pack
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • The EU
  • Research Briefing

    EU referendum: UK’s EU reform negotiations and the Tusk package

    Tuesday, 09 February, 2016

    This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the Prime Minister’s proposals for EU reform, which he set out in a letter to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, in November 2015, concerning four broad areas: economic governance, competitiveness, sovereignty and free movement. It also looks at Donald Tusk’s package of draft texts to address UK concerns, their implications and prospects for agreement.

    • Research Briefing
    • Defence policy
    • Economy
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • The EU
  • Debate Pack

    Parliamentary sovereignty and EU renegotiation

    Tuesday, 02 February, 2016

    This is a Debate Pack for the debate on 'Parliamentary sovereignty and EU renegotiations' on Thursday 4 February 2016. Debate Packs are collections of parliamentary and other relevant material produced for most non-legislative debates in the Chamber and Westminster Hall, other than half-hour adjournment debates.

    • Debate Pack
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • Parliament
    • The EU
  • Research Briefing

    EU referendum: reform negotiations June to December 2015

    Wednesday, 30 December, 2015

    This Commons Library briefing paper looks at the Prime Minister’s proposed reforms, the launch of the UK reform agenda at the European Council in June 2015 and EU institutional initiatives of relevance to the Government's reform agenda. It also considers the level of support for the UK from other EU Member States, the role – if any - of the devolved administrations in the negotiations, public opinion, the referendum campaigns and other recent developments.

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • Europe
    • Institutions
    • Parliament
    • The EU
  • Research Briefing

    The 1974-75 UK Renegotiation of EEC Membership and Referendum

    Monday, 13 July, 2015

    Why did the UK Government decide to renegotiate the UK's terms of EEC membership in 1974-75? What was the outcome of the negotiations and what did the Referendum Bill say? This briefing looks at the Labour Government's renegotiation and indicates where there are parallels with the present Government's renegotiation agenda.

    • Research Briefing
    • Economy
    • EU institutions
    • EU law and treaties
    • Farming and fishing
    • The EU
  • Research Briefing

    European banking union

    Monday, 29 June, 2015

    This note brings together the main documents and developments regarding the EU's pan-Community supervisory and recovery mechanism for members’ banking sectors - the Banking Union. Significant new measures were approved of in December 2013 it faces a severe test in respect to Greece in 2015..

    • Research Briefing
    • EU institutions
    • Finance
  • Research Briefing

    Regulating the web: The open internet and net neutrality

    Monday, 18 May, 2015

    Net neutrality is the concept that all information and services should have equal and open access online without regard to content, destination or source. Both net neutrality—and the associated concept of the ‘open internet’—are considered to be founding principles of the World Wide Web. Concerns that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are looking to circumvent net neutrality principles—deciding how fast data will be transmitted and at what quality—have led to campaigns to explicitly legislate for net neutrality. Without net neutrality campaigners fear a two-tiered service with fast and slow lanes could develop. In the past few years, the EU and other countries have attempted to explicitly legislate to ensure Internet Service Providers (ISPs) operate in a net neutral fashion.

    • Research Briefing
    • Crime
    • EU institutions
    • Technology

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