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European Union
Also Known As EU
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The European Union is a political and economic union of European member states, integrated across trade, monetary policy, and other shared areas of governance. It was created as a named legal entity by the Maastricht Treaty, which entered into force in 1993, building on European integration efforts dating back to the 1950s.
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The treaty transformed the European Community into the European Union and created the status of Union citizenship.
Widely regarded as the founding act of the integration process that produced today's European Union.
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Retyped from associated-with to part-of: the European Commission is one of the EU's constituent institutions, not merely an associated body.
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