Glossary

• Assent Procedure
• Barcelona Process
• Citizenship
• Codecision Procedure
• Comitology
• Common Action
• Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
• Common Position
• Community Patent
• Community Powers
• Consultation Procedure
• Copenhagen Criteria
• Coreper
• Customs Union
• Democratic Deficit
• Direct Effect
• Double Majority
• Europe ‘à la carte’
• European External Action Service (EEAS)
• Excessive Deficit Procedure
• Green Paper
• Laeken Declaration
• Legal Personality
• Open Method of Coordination (OMC)
• Opting Out
• Proportionality
• Qualified Majority
• Right of Initiative
• Schengen
• Social Charter
• Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)
• State Aid
• Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
• Subsidiarity
• Trans-European Networks (TEN)
• Troika
• Unanimity
• White Paper