What exactly is the European Union? What are its economic, social and other policies? Do member states lose their national identities in the process of integration or the democratic values in the EU governing system are prerequisites for keeping a country's very own distinctive features?

 If you are interested in the answers of these and many other questions you have probably gone through the huge amount of web sites, magazine articles and books, dedicated to the subject. As a first-year student in European studies I am also in constant search of further info about the EU and its insitutions. This site is planned as a kind of EU encyclopaedia,an e-handbook for people interested in the basics of the European Union...and most of all - young people willing to contact their peers and exchange ideas and comments on all EU-related topics