101 things that the EU does

Göran Lövestam is a Swedish physicist with a PhD in nuclear physics who has worked for more than 20 years within the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. His long and solid work experience within the European Commission has given him a comprehensive and broad insight into the EU’s legislative work.


Table of Content

The four freedoms – the internal market

1 Free movement of goods

2 The free movement of services

3 Free movement of people

4 Free movement of capital

Peace, Freedom and Justice

5 EU citizenship

6 Fundamental rights

7 European Ombudsman

No internal but reinforced external borders

8 Schengen – an EU without internal border controls

9 Schengen Information System – SIS

10 The EU Border Police – Frontex

11 Migration and refugee reception

Safety and security

12 Galileo – EU’s own GPS

13 Copernicus – keeps track of the earth, the air and the sea

14 Aviation security

15 Common Aviation Area

16 EU air passenger register

17 Protection against CBRN threats and terrorism

18 EU work on civil protection and humanitarian aid

19 Network and information security

20 European Data Protection Supervisor

Police cooperation and legal certainty

21 Court of Justice of the European Union

22 Europol

23 European Arrest Warrant

24 Rule of law and support for victims of terror

25 Eurojust

26 Legal databases

27 OLAF

Research and education

28 European Research Area

29 Horizon 2020 programme

30 Erasmus+

31 Marie Sklodowska Curie Grants

32 European Research Council

33 JRC – EU Joint Research Centre

34 The European School

35 Eurostat

A Union for innovation and development

36 European Investment Bank

37 European Investment Fund – EU support for small businesses

38 European Institute of Innovation and Technology

EU nuclear activities

39 European Atomic Energy Community – Euratom

40 Control of fissile and radioactive materials

Culture in the EU

41 European Capital of Culture

42 Creative Europe

43 DiscoverEU

Consumer protection in the EU

44 Food safety

45 Origin labelling of food

46 The fight against food fraud

47 Protection of trade marks

48 Eco-labelling

49 CE marking

50 Type-approved goods

51 Standards and Reference Materials

52 New innovations, technologies and services

53 Your rights in the event of cancelled travel

Environment

54 Clean water

55 Clean air

56 Emissions trading

57 Nature protection – Natura 2000

58 The EU and climate change

59 Renewable energy sources

60 Registration of chemicals

Energy

61 EU Energy Union

62 Trans-European energy network

63 Research on energy sources

Agriculture, fisheries and animal welfare

64 The Common Agricultural Policy

65 Common Fisheries Policy

66 EU programmes for agriculture and rural development

67 Protecting the EU’s biodiversity

68 Limitation of animal testing

Public health and health insurance

69 Your health insurance in the EU

70 EU and public health

71 Innovative medicines

Regional development

72 EU Regional Development Fund

73 The EU Social Fund

74 Smart City – An EU Collaborative Programme

Foreign affairs and defence

75 European External Action Service (EEAS)

76 The EU’s common foreign and security policy

77 The EU’s common defence policy

Work and social rights

78 Labour law

79 Protection of employment in the event of takeover of companies

80 Cross-border workers

81 Move your pension

82 Social rights

Economics and trade

83 The European Semester

84 Stability and Growth Pact

85 Euro

86 European Central Bank

87 Banking union

88 Customs union

89 Tax policy

90 EU Audit Legislation

91 Business insolvencies

92 EU competition law

93 The EU’s crackdown on cartels

94 Measures against money laundering and terrorist financing

95 Circular economy

96 Timeshares

97 Economic studies

IT and telecoms

98 Digital Single Market

99 Data Protection Regulation

100 No roaming charges

101 5G