03
Explainers
Twelve walkthroughs, in one order. What the Union is, and who is trying to join it. What it is then allowed to do, and why a court in Dublin has to listen. Who takes the decisions, and how anybody gets one of those jobs. How a law is actually made, and how the votes are counted. What the whole thing costs. And what happens when a member state ignores the result. Each one assumes the one before it, so start at the top. Nothing here is scored.
- 1 Start here Treaty Atlas Seventy years of treaties and enlargements, on a map.
- 2 Accession EN TRAVAUX
- 3 Competences EN TRAVAUX
- 4 Direct Effect and Primacy EN TRAVAUX
- 5 The Single Market EN TRAVAUX
- 6 The EU Institutions EN TRAVAUX
- 7 Getting the Job EN TRAVAUX
- 8 The Trilogue EN TRAVAUX
- 9 How Parliament Votes EN TRAVAUX
- 10 The EU Budget EN TRAVAUX
- 11 Comitology EN TRAVAUX
- 12 Enforcing EU Law EN TRAVAUX