The European Union
Institutions and terms
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn 44 terms around the European Union: institutions, legal acts and procedures, asked both ways.
Commission, Council, European Council: three names one hears constantly and mixes up easily. And what is the difference between a regulation and a directive?
44 terms in both directions, from the word to the explanation and back. Plus eighteen cards for figures and sources: thresholds, articles, deadlines.
The back of each card carries the treaty article behind it. The level is upper secondary: not what an institution is, but what it can do.
The names of the institutions appear as the Union itself uses them.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Foundations” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
What you learn
- The institutions and who may decide what
- The ordinary legislative procedure and the trilogue
- Regulation, directive, decision and primacy
- Subsidiarity and proportionality, Article 5 TEU
- Single market, Schengen and euro area differ
The categories
5 categories sort the 106 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Foundations
- Having a say
- Law and decisions
- Policy areas
- The institutions
What you get
Here are three of the 106 cards you get when you buy the deck.
Question
How would you define the European Commission?
Answer
The body that alone may propose laws and watches over how they are applied.
Note
27 members, one per country, based in Brussels. Article 17(2) TEU: a legislative act may be adopted only on its proposal. It also runs the infringement procedure.
Question
Which term is meant: the body that alone may propose laws and watches over how they are applied?
Answer
European Commission
Note
27 members, one per country, based in Brussels. Article 17(2) TEU: a legislative act may be adopted only on its proposal. It also runs the infringement procedure.
Question
What is meant by the European Parliament?
Answer
The directly elected chamber; it elects the Commission President and can bring the Commission down.
Note
720 members since the 2024 election, seats in Strasbourg and Brussels. A motion of censure under Article 234 TFEU needs two thirds of the votes cast and a majority of all members.
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106 cards, sorted into 5 categories.
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