BASICS

• Task: Key Statistics
• European Union Fundamentals

• Budget, Staff

• Key Figures on the EU in the World
• Key Figures on Europe
• Schuman Declaration of 9 May 1950
• White Paper on the Future of Europe
• Letter to Europeans

• Speech by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, 29 August 2022

• The (Three Pillar) Structure of the EU

DIFFERENTIATED INTEGRATION

• Enhanced Co-operation
• Flexibility within the Lisbon Treaty (optional reading)
• Macron: multi-speed Europe

POLITICAL GUIDELINES EC 2019-2024, CONFERENCE ON THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

• Political Guidelines for the European Commission 2019-2024
• Commission Communication: Shaping the Conference on the Future of Europe
  

• Council position on the Conference on the Future of Europe
  

• Revised Council position on the Conference on the Future of Europe
• EP's position on the Conference on the Future of Europe
• EP Resolution of 18 June 2020 / Conference on the Future of Europe
• Joint Declaration
• Rules of Procedure

• REPORT ON THE FINAL OUTCOME, May 2022

• COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION, Putting Vision into Concrete Action,
  

  COM/2022/404 final

• After the Conference on the Future of Europe: Time to Make Reforms Happen

• Reforming the EU Outside the EU?

LINKS

• The European Anthem
• The EU motto
• Nobel Peace Prize 2012

• The 2021-2027 EU budget

• 2021-2027 long-term EU budget & NextGenerationEU

• COUNCIL DECISION (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 on the system of own resources

• Unified Funding Approach