European Student Think Tank

Research Guide

This research guide is meant to provide you with an intro­duc­tion to the resources that are avail­able to con­duct research on the European Union. Most research guides avail­able tend to focus on the legal aspects of the EU. Here, we have tried to provide inform­a­tion from more fields of know­ledge as well as links to inter­dis­cip­lin­ary documents.

We hope it will help you in writ­ing blogs, research­ing the themes of our strategy groups and for react­ing on EU policy proposals.

Con­tent

EU Insti­tu­tions Back­ground Pub­lic­a­tions
Treat­ies
Legis­la­tion
Sci­entific Journ­als
Other

EU Insti­tu­tions

Gen­eral inform­a­tion insti­tu­tions
European Com­mis­sion
European Par­lia­ment
Coun­cil of the European Union (Coun­cil of Min­is­ters)
Court of Justice of the European Union
European Coun­cil

Back­ground Pub­lic­a­tions

Online Guides

European Union Legal Mater­i­als: An Infre­quent User’s Guide (Glob­aLex)
List of EU research guides by Jean Mon­net Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional and Regional Eco­nomic Law & Justice
Alpha­bet­ical Index to EU sub­jects (EU Delegation)

Introductory Books

How the European Union works : a citizen’s guide to the EU insti­tu­tion­sOf­fice for Offi­cial Pub­lic­a­tions of the European Com­munit­ies, c2003

Dinan, Des­mond (ed.) Encyc­lo­pe­dia of the European Union. Boulder : Lynne Rein­ner Pub­lish­ers, 1998.

European com­munity law : an intro­duc­tion. Edin­burgh : But­ter­worths : Law Soci­ety of Scot­land, 1991.

Treat­ies
The treat­ies are the primary legis­la­tion of the European Union. They provide the basis for policies, legis­la­tion, insti­tu­tions and pro­cesses. The most import­ant ones can be found below.

Treat­ies estab­lish­ing the European Com­munit­ies. 1987-1988.

Treaty on European Union. 1992.

The Treaty of Lis­bon. 2008.

Legis­la­tion

Data­base con­tain­ing most European Union Legis­la­tion
Data­base con­tain­ing steps in the legis­lat­ive process

Sci­entific Journ­als and Selec­ted Newspapers

Europe’s World

European Union Politics

European Journal of Inter­na­tional Law

European Uni­ver­sity Institute

European Integ­ra­tion online Papers

European Voice

Other

The Pub­lic­a­tion Office of the European Union pub­lishes the ‘Offi­cial Journal’ daily in 22 lan­guages and pro­duces pub­li­city for EU ini­ti­at­ives and activ­it­ies http://publications.europa.eu/index_en.htm