http://www.nato.int/

Defence organisation for many European countries, Canada and USA. Headquarter in Brussels. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is the major Western defence organisationmember states. ..

http://www.oecd.org/

An economic co-operation between Canada, the USA, Australia, and the Western countries in Europe. It was established in Paris and followed the OEEC in 1960. It has now 30 member states and produces many useful publications...

http://www.un.org/

The United Nations was founded in 1948 and now assembles 192 countries. France and the UK are permanent members of the UN Security Council. The EU is not a member of the Security Council in its own right...

http://www.bis.org/index.htm

The "central" bank of 120 central banks around the world, based in Basel. Its task is to facilitate the free flow of capital...

http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/

North Atlantic Free Trade Association between Canada, USA and Mexico since 1994. ..

http://www.cosac.eu/en/

The national parliaments of all of the EU Member States have special committees on European Affairs. They have established special co-operation over European affairs through COSAC. 25 national parliaments have their own representatives in Brussels to operate as an early warning system for the national parliaments...

http://ue.eu.int/en/summ.htm

A high representative is normally someone appointed to represent an organisation abroad. The former Spanish Foreign Minister and former Secretary General of NATO, Javier Solana, is the Secretary General for the Council and at the same time High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy. As High Representative he has to assist the Council in Common Foreign and Security Policy. Solana often travels with the President in office or his foreign minister to negotiate on issues such as peace in the Middle East and elsewhere. ..

http://www.nato.int/pfp/pfp.htm

A NATO initiative of 1994 to involve the countries of Eastern and Central Europe in defence talks before their membership of NATO became possible, and for other countries wishing to co-operate with NATO...