Please find below an overview of links, organized by chapter. Note that links may appear several times, as they may be relevant to several chapters.
| Chapter 1 | The Historical Development of the EU |
| European Navigator | A multimedial portal with fact files, documents, pictures and films on European Integration |
| Official EU History | EU timeline on European Integration |
| Chapter 2 | Analyzing the EU |
| Academic Journals | Links to scholarly journals |
| Think Tank Directory Europe | Overview of think thanks on Europe |
| European Research Papers Archive | A good starting point to find papers on the EU |
| Chapter 3 | The Institutional Framework |
| EUROPA- Institutions and Bodies | A useful gateway to all of the EU’s institutions |
| EUROPA – Treaty of Lisbon | Check out Title III of TEU and Part VI of the TFEU for provisions on institutions |
| Chapter 4 | Legislation and Decision-Making: Putting the Institutional Puzzle Together |
| European Parliament – The Legislative Observatory | An excellent tool for tracking decision-making processes that involve the EP. Not exhaustive |
| Pre-Lex | Exhaustive overview of steps taken in decision-making procedures, including all documents and links to voting records. |
| Council of the European Union | Council of Ministers. |
| EUR-Lex | Overview All legislation that is adopted in the EU |
| Chapter 5 | Public Opinion and Political Participation |
| Eurobarometer – Public Opinion | Numerous overviews and analysis on public opinion as conducted by the European Commission. |
| Gesis- Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Eurobarometer data files |
| European Election Studies | Survey results on attitudes and behaviour of EU citizens with respect to EP elections |
| Chapter 6 | Interest groups and interest representation |
| Commission Register of Interest Representatives | The European Commission’s Register of Interest Representatives |
| European Parliament Register of Interest Representatives | List of lobbyists accredited to the EP |
| EESC | European Economic and Social Committee |
| Committee of the Regions | |
| EPACA | European Public Affairs Consultancies’ Association |
| SEAP | Society of European Affairs Professionals |
| Chapter 7 | Political Parties and the European Parliament |
| European Parliament | |
| VoteWatch.eu | Contains the voting records of MEPs and political groups, as well as analysis and background information. |
| Chapter 8 | An overview of EU policy-making |
| EUR- Lex | Overviews of EU legislation and decisions |
| Pre-Lex | Overviews of proposals for legislation that are currently being discussed. |
| EUROPA – Budget | Information on the EU budget. |
| Eurostat | Statistics on economy, government finances and many other things in the EU member states. |
| Chapter 9 | Agenda-setting |
| Pre-Lex | Preparatory documents by the European Commission and overviews of the follow-up to those documents. |
| European Commission | The European Commission publishes a wide range of documents on specific policy issues (including Green Papers, White Papers and other agenda-setting documents). |
| Chapter 10 | Decision-Making |
| European Parliament – The Legislative Observatory | The European Parliament’s ‘legislative observatory’ tracks decision-making processes that involve the EP. |
| Pre-Lex | Steps taken in decision-making procedures that involve the Commission |
| Council of the European Union | The results of votes taken in the Council of Ministers. |
| Chapter 11 | Implementing policies |
| Comitology Register | Specific information and documents on Comitology |
| Application of EU Law | Information on the application of Community law as well as statistics on transposition and infringements |
| Agencies of the European Union | Overview of all the EUs agencies |
| Court of Justice of the European Union | Information on the litigation state of infringements and on references for preliminary rulings |
| EIF Implementation Database | Online database containing all the results of scholarly studies on transposing EU directives. |
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