Europa is the official
web portal
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of the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
(EU), providing information on how the EU works, related news, events, publications and links to websites of
institutions
An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity. Laws, rules, social conventions and ...
,
agencies and other bodies. ''.europa.eu'' is also used as a common
second level domain for the websites of the EU's bodies, for instance ''iss.europa.eu'' is the address of the
Institute for Security Studies.
Europa was first published in February 1995 at the
G7 ministerial meeting on information society in
Brussels
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. Originally designed for that specific event, the portal expanded rapidly and the European Commission decided to develop it into a general information resource, specialising in the work and domain of the EU's bodies.
Laws and documents of major public interest are published in all 24 official
EU languages. Documents that are not legally binding are usually published in the EU's institutional ''working languages''; English, French and German.
Services
Europa also offers other services such as:
* EU law (EUR-Lex)
* EU TV information service, (
Europe by satellite)
*
EU Open Data (EU Open Data Portal)
* contact data of EU officials in management positions (EU Whoiswho)
* EU research and development (CORDIS)
* public procurement (TED)
See also
*
Agency of the European Union
*
EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the official online database of European Union law and other public documents of the European Union (EU), published in 24 official Languages of the European Union, languages of the EU. The Official Journal of the European Union, Offici ...
*
European NAvigator
*
EuroVoc
*
Institutions of the European Union
*
Publications Office of the European Union
References
External links
* {{Official website
Information technology organizations based in Europe
portal
Web portals
Internet properties established in 1995
1995 establishments in Europe