http://eur-lex.europa.eu/

Searchable site with basic legal texts on which the European Union and the European Communities are founded. ..

http://ec.europa.eu/constitution/index_en.htm

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http://europa.eu/scadplus/treaties/maastricht_en.htm

The Treaty of Maastricht, also known as the Treaty on European Union (TEU), paved the way for the further European integration, in particular by introducing the Economic and Monetary Union. It represents the biggest development of the treaties so far. Signed in 1992, it came into force on 1st November 1993. ..

http://ec.europa.eu/social/home.jsp?langId=en

The Treaty of Nice has a special chapter on employment policy (Art. 125-130 TEC). Incentive measures and pilot projects may be decided by a qualified majority in the Council and co-decision with the EU Parliament, but no harmonisation of national employment rules is permitted and there can be no common EU economic policies geared to maximising employment. Instead, the EU seeks to influence national employment policies by means of "guidelines"...

http://europa.eu/abc/treaties/index_en.htm

Treaty on European Community. The abbreviation TEC is often added after an Article to distinguish its articles from TEU-articles of the Treaty on European Union, referring to the second and third pillar. The Lisbon Treaty will amend the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty Establishing the European Community (TEC). The TEU will keep its present title, but the TEC will be renamed the “Treaty on the Functioning of the Union” (TFEU). ..

http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/index_en.htm

In 1998 the Central and Eastern European applicant countries extended their European agreements into accession partnerships. These provided: - a single framework for priority areas for further work identified in the Commission's regular reports. - the financial means available to help the countries to implement the EU priorities. - the conditions for EU assistance. ..

http://ec.europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/s50000.htm

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http://ec.europa.eu/comm/nice_treaty/index_en.htm

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http://www.ecb.int/ecb/history/emu/html/index.en.html

Established by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993. The EMU places a ceiling on public spending and the funding of public expenditure, not least a ban on the printing and circulation of national money. ..

http://european-convention.eu.int/docs/meetings/2-EN.pdf

The Lisbon Treaty establishes legal personality for the whole Union (Art. 47 TEU). It replaces the European Community by a new European Union. It abolishes the existing pillar structure, thus bringing foreign policy and security, and crime, justice and home affairs - which were previously inter-governmental, with States retaining their sovereignty - either wholly or largely within the ambit of the new Union. Treaties can therefore cover all areas and become the most important legal instrument in a globalised world with increasing amounts of international law...

http://www.europarl.eu.int/factsheets/1_2_1_en.htm

The complete body of EU legislation is over 100,000 pages long in the Official Journal, around 17,000 different legal acts can be found in Eur-lex. It is around 26,500 documents when organized in 20 chapters, in 2009. Some acts are registered under different chapters. ..

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/......play.do?id=151&language=EN

According to the Amsterdam Treaty (Art. 255) and the Treaty of Nice, citizens have a right of access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents. Under Art. 255, in May 2001, the EU adopted a regulation on public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents...