Where this comes from
Every question in the knowledge test carries a source. These are all of them: 101 pages holding up 498 questions between them, grouped by who publishes them and heaviest first, so the top of each list is where to start. All primary material — the institutions writing about themselves.
The law itself
The treaties in force and the judgments. Everything else on this page is somebody explaining these.
- Treaties in force — EUR-Lex
- Court of Justice of the EU
- Staff Regulations
- Charter of Fundamental Rights
The Commission
One institution, thirty-odd department sites. Which department publishes a policy tells you who owns it.
- EU budget
- Single market
- College of Commissioners
- EU trade policy
- Migration and home affairs
- Consumer rights
- Environment policy
- Cohesion policy
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Defence industry and space
- Antitrust and cartels
- Common Fisheries Policy
- Competition policy
- Transport policy
- Better regulation
- Civil justice
- Company reporting
- Corporate taxation
- Data protection
- EU citizenship
- Europe's Digital Decade
- European Green Deal
- European Pillar of Social Rights
- How the Commission is appointed
- Pact on Migration and Asylum
- Taxation and customs
- AI regulatory framework
- Departments and executive agencies
- EU budget 2028–2034
- Enlargement policy
- International partnerships
- Merger control
- Product safety and requirements
- Recovery plan for Europe
- State aid control
- 2040 climate target
- Banking union
- EU Emissions Trading System
- EU education policy
- EU health policy
- Economic and fiscal governance
- Energy infrastructure
- European Semester
- Nature and biodiversity
- The euro
- Trade defence
- Trans-European Transport Network
- Upholding the rule of law
- Value added tax
- Copyright
- Customs
- Digital Markets Act
- Digital Services Act package
- EU Space Programme
- EU–UK relations
- Energy policy
- Erasmus+
- European Anti-Fraud Office
- European Climate Law
- Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- Generalised Scheme of Preferences
- Geographical indications
- NUTS classification — Eurostat
- Waste and recycling
- Water policy
The Parliament
- Ordinary legislative procedure
- European Parliament — about
- European Parliament — how plenary works
- EP public register
The Council
- Council of the EU
- European Council
- COREPER — Council
- Presidency of the Council
- Eurogroup
- Qualified majority — Council
The Union’s own portal
The plain-language layer, and the right place to start on anything institutional.
- EU institutions and bodies
- EU history — 1945-59
- EU symbols
- EU languages
- Key facts and figures
- Schuman Declaration, 9 May 1950
External action
Banks, auditors, watchdogs and agencies
The bodies that are not institutions and are regularly mistaken for them.
- European Central Bank
- European Ombudsman
- European Court of Auditors
- EUIPO
- ECHA — Understanding REACH
- EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
- European Defence Agency
- European Investment Bank
- European Public Prosecutor's Office
- European Stability Mechanism
- Unified Patent Court
Where a citizen files something
Three addresses that accept a submission from a member of the public.
If one of these is dead
Links open on the publisher's own site and nothing is mirrored here. When one of them moves, the question that rests on it is the thing that has gone wrong, not the link — say so and both get fixed.