22 Facts About European Union

1. European Union was formed to bring together the countries of Europe.

2. European Union wants tougher examination of potential risks associated with Chinese tech companies, amid growing fears of cybercrimes linked to Beijing and the Chinese government.

3. European Union is launching bug bounty programs for 14 out of 15 open source projects on which EU institutions rely.

4. European Union is a grouping of states from Western, Eastern, and Central Europe.

5. The European Union has placed priority on improving relations with developing countries.

6. In 1998, the European Union decided to pursue its own satellite navigation system, known as Galileo, which currently is still in its development phase.

7. European Union companies are the number-one investor in 41 US states and rank second in the other nine.

8. European Union is comprised of three separate communities: the European Coal and Steel Community (established in 1951) and the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community (both established in 1957).

9. The European Union participated as an observer in Multinational Experiment 4 crises simulations led by US Joint Forces Command, and is currently participating as an observer in MNE5.

10. The European Union used the ASEM Summit to press the Burmese regime to adopt a more inclusive political process and introduce a timetable for democratic reform.

11. The United States and European Union actively engaged in ongoing support for the Iraq Compact process.

12. The United States and the European Union have held regular consultations, in particular within the United Nations framework and the Quartet, on the evolving situation.

13. European Union firms were the largest foreign investors in 44 US states and the second largest foreign investor in the remaining six.

14. European Union is a political and monetary organization of European nations.

15. European Union is a rapidly changing economic and political union of mostly western European nations that arose out of the European Community in 1993.

16. European Union is a long-standing political and economic federation of autonomous European nations.

17. The Treaty of European Union, signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands, in 1992 and ratified in 1993, provided for a central banking system, a common currency to replace the national currencies, a legal definition of the EU, and a framework for expanding the EU's political role, particularly in the area of foreign and security policy.

18. European Union is a confederation of 28 member countries in Europe, started in 1957 as the European Economic Community (EEC).

19. The European Union Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers seeks to align national laws on the protection of people's health, on the consumers' rights, on the safety of food and other products.

20. European Union has established agencies to co-ordinate police, prosecutorial and immigrations controls across the member states: Europol for co-operation of police forces, Eurojust for co-operation between prosecutors, and Frontex for co-operation between border control authorities.

21. European Union was formally established when the Maastricht Treaty—whose main architects were Helmut Kohl and Francois Mitterrand—came into force on 1 November 1993.

22. European Union is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.