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Starting points
- ASIL Electronic Resource Guide for International Law (ERG) - European Union
- ESO European Sources Online European Union information service provided by Cardiff University
- Europa - the European Union's portal. Access to all the official EU sites.
- Europe in the UK - The Commission's Representation in the UK provides a comprehensive list of national and local organisations, including European Documentation Centres
- European Union a guide to researching the law of the EU (from IALS)
- European Union Law: an integrated guide to electronic and print research - by Marylin J Raisch for LLRX
- European Union Legal Materials: an infrequent user's guide - written by Duncan Alford with an American perspective
- Researching EU law (from The Inner Temple Library)
- Summaries of legislation - in all EU policy areas
European Union institutions
- Agencies
- Committee of the Regions
- Council of the European Union
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- Departments and executive agencies
- Economic and Social Committee
- European Central Bank
- European Commission
- European Court of Auditors
- European Union institutions - listing
- European Investment Bank
- European Ombudsman
- European Parliament
- Europol
Directorates General
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Budget
- Competition
- Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency
- Economic and Financial Affairs
- Education and Culture
- Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities
- Environment
- Eurostat
- Home Affairs
- Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection
- Information Society and Media
- Internal Market and Services
- International Cooperation and Development - EuropeAid
- Justice
- Legal Service
- Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
- Publications Office
- Regional Policy
- Secretariat General
- Trade
European Union Law
- Court of Justice of the European Union - includes recent case law (from 1997), list of all cases lodged before the court, Proceedings of the Court and other materials
- Directory of European Union preparatory acts on EUR-Lex
- EUR-Lex - the official database for European Law
- European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters. Links to the judicial system of all the member states, with information on the court structure, civil procedure, the legal professions, dispute resolution, etc.
The legislative process
- Common positions referred by the Council to the European Parliament from 1999
- European Communities Legislation - House of Commons factsheet
- European Parliament
- European Parliament UK Office News from the EP, the workings of the EP, and a list of UK MEPs and video links
- Legislative Observatory - the European Parliament's site for searching the legislative process of the EU
- EUR-Lex - official database for monitoring the decision-making process between EU institutions
Libraries and indexes
- Archive of European Integration - electronic repository and archive for research materials on European integration and unification, sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh
- ECLAS - the European Commission Libraries Catalogue. Search for books, documents and articles, and for internet resources.
- ERPA - European Research Papers Archive: a single point for searching for papers on European Integration research
- European Union Documents - this site includes green & white papers, reports, communications, programmes and other resources
- EU Whoiswho - search by person, by entity or by hierarchy.
- Historical Archives of the EU at the European University Institute, Florence
- Jean Monnet Working Papers - published at Harvard University. The site also includes European Integration Current Contents, tables of contents to over 100 journals
- Library of the Court of Justice of the European Union - online bibliographical research tool for European Union law, international law, comparative law, the laws of the Member States of the European Union and of certain non-member countries and the general theory of law.
UK government sites
- Department for Business Innovation and Skills - Europe pages
- European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons
- European Committee Debates - House of Commons debates
- The European Union Select Committee of the House of Lords, and access to its sub-committees
- Publications of the House of Lords European Select Committee
Other European Union sources
- Eurofound - European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions provides up-to-date information and analysis on living and working conditions, industrial relations and managing change in Europe
- EU Bookshop - complete digital archive of EU publications
- Statewatch: Archive of EU Justice and Home Affairs documents - online archive of over 7,000 official documents that chart the development of EU justice and home affairs policy over three decades.
News & current awareness - official and non-official
- BBC News - European news
- EU News
- EurActiv - portal for EU affairs, news, policy
- European Commission Representation in the UK - includes daily and weekly news bulletins.
- POLITICO Europe (formerly European Voice) - articles from the weekly publication
- EuroSavant - commentary on the European non-English-language Press
- Press Room - the European Commission's daily news service
- RAPID - press releases from the European Commission's Spokesman's Service. Daily update