Historical Dictionary of the European Union (2016 edition)

Because the previous edition of the Historical dictionary of the European Union (RR 2007/275) was written ten years ago (by different authors), much has changed in the Union and elsewhere, so there was certainly a need for this new one, which presents 380 entries of between 20 and 1000 words on its institutions or subordinate bodies, treaties, procedures, policies, personalities and technical terms, together with articles on its member states, other associated countries and international organisations. The text appears to have been updated (in some cases rather hastily) to the middle of 2015. The EU presents peculiar difficulties to...