AP | Popular Alliance (Spain) |
AWS | Solidarity Electoral Action (Poland) |
BDA | Federation of German Employer Associations |
BDI | Federation of German Industry |
CAP | Common Agricultural Policy |
CBI | Confederation of British Industry |
CCOO | Workers Commissions (Spain) |
CDU/CSU | Christian Democratic Union/ Christian Social Union (Germany) |
CEOE | Spanish Confederation of Employers Organizations |
CESDP | Common European Security and Defense Policy |
CFI | Court of First Instance (European Union) |
CFSP | Common Foreign and Security Policy |
CGIL | Italian General Confederation of Labor |
CISL | Italian Confederation of Workers Unions |
CiU | Convergence and Union (Catalonia/Spain) |
CNAG | National Agricultural and Livestock Farmers Federation (Spain) |
COPA | Confederation of Professional Agricultural Organizations (EU) |
COREPER | Committee of Permanent Representatives (EU, in French) |
DBV | League of German Farmers |
DGB | German Confederation of Labor |
DIHT | German Industrial and Trade Conference |
EC | European Community (or Communities) |
ECB | European Central Bank |
ECJ | European Court of Justice |
ECOFIN | Economic and Financial Council (European Union) |
ECSC | European Coal and Steel Community |
EDC | European Defense Community |
EEC | European Economic Community |
EFTA | European Free Trade Association |
EH | Euskal Herritarrok (Basque Country/Spain, in Basque language) |
ELDR | European Liberal Democratic Reform party |
EMS | European Monetary System |
EMU | Economic and Monetary Union |
ENA | National School of Administration (France) |
ENI | National Hydrocarbons Agency (Italy) |
EPC | European Political Community (proposed in 1950s) |
EPC | European Political Cooperation (1970s to early 1990s) |
EPP | European Peoples party |
ERDF | European Regional Development Fund |
ERM | Exchange Rate Mechanism |
ERT | European Roundtable of Industrialists |
ESCB | European System of Central Banks |
ESDI | European Security and Defense Identity |
ETA | Basque Homeland and Liberty (Basque Country/Spain) |
ETUC | European Trade Union Confederation |
EU | European Union |
Euratom | European Atomic Energy Community |
FDP | Free Democratic party (Germany) |
FI | Forza Italia! (Italy) |
FN | National Front (France) |
FNSEA | National Federation of Agricultural Unions (France) |
GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GDP | gross domestic product |
INI | National Institute of Industry (Spain) |
IRI | Institute for Industrial Reconstruction (Italy) |
IU | United Left (Spain) |
JHA | Justice and Home Affairs |
KGB | Committee for State Security (Soviet Union) |
LO | Workers Struggle (France) |
MDC | Movement of Citizens (France) |
MEDEF | Movement of French Enterprises |
MEP | Member of the European Parliament |
NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OPZZ | National Trade Union Accord (Poland) |
PC | Popular Coalition (Spain) |
PCE | Spanish Communist party |
PCF | French Communist party |
PDS | Party of Democratic Socialism (Germany) |
PES | Party of European Socialists |
PHARE | Poland, Hungary: Assistance for Economic Reconstruction |
PNV | Basque Nationalist party |
PP | Popular party (Spain) |
PR | proportional representation |
PR | Republican Pole (France) |
PRG | Left Radical party (France) |
PS | Socialist party (France) |
PSOE | Spanish Socialist Workers party |
QMV | qualified majority voting |
RPF | Rally for France |
RPR | Rally for the Republic (France) |
SEA | Single European Act |
SLD | Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) |
SPD | Social Democratic party (Germany) |
TUC | Trades Union Congress (United Kingdom) |
UCD | Union of the Democratic Center (Spain) |