101 things that the EU does

Göran Lövestam is a Swedish physicist with a PhD in nuclear physics who has worked for more than 20 years within the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm. His long and solid work experience within the European Commission has given him a comprehensive and broad insight into the EU’s legislative work.

Table of Content
The four freedoms – the internal market
1 Free movement of goods
2 The free movement of services
3 Free movement of people
4 Free movement of capital
Peace, Freedom and Justice
5 EU citizenship
6 Fundamental rights
7 European Ombudsman
No internal but reinforced external borders
8 Schengen – an EU without internal border controls
9 Schengen Information System – SIS
10 The EU Border Police – Frontex
11 Migration and refugee reception
Safety and security
12 Galileo – EU’s own GPS
13 Copernicus – keeps track of the earth, the air and the sea
14 Aviation security
15 Common Aviation Area
16 EU air passenger register
17 Protection against CBRN threats and terrorism
18 EU work on civil protection and humanitarian aid
19 Network and information security
20 European Data Protection Supervisor
Police cooperation and legal certainty
21 Court of Justice of the European Union
22 Europol
23 European Arrest Warrant
24 Rule of law and support for victims of terror
25 Eurojust
26 Legal databases
27 OLAF
Research and education
28 European Research Area
29 Horizon 2020 programme
30 Erasmus+
31 Marie Skłodowska Curie Grants
32 European Research Council
33 JRC – EU Joint Research Centre
34 The European School
35 Eurostat
A Union for innovation and development
36 European Investment Bank
37 European Investment Fund – EU support for small businesses
38 European Institute of Innovation and Technology
EU nuclear activities
39 European Atomic Energy Community – Euratom
40 Control of fissile and radioactive materials
Culture in the EU
41 European Capital of Culture
42 Creative Europe
43 DiscoverEU
Consumer protection in the EU
44 Food safety
45 Origin labelling of food
46 The fight against food fraud
47 Protection of trade marks
48 Eco-labelling
49 CE marking
50 Type-approved goods
51 Standards and Reference Materials
52 New innovations, technologies and services
53 Your rights in the event of cancelled travel
Environment
54 Clean water
55 Clean air
56 Emissions trading
57 Nature protection – Natura 2000
58 The EU and climate change
59 Renewable energy sources
60 Registration of chemicals
Energy
61 EU Energy Union
62 Trans-European energy network
63 Research on energy sources
Agriculture, fisheries and animal welfare
64 The Common Agricultural Policy
65 Common Fisheries Policy
66 EU programmes for agriculture and rural development
67 Protecting the EU’s biodiversity
68 Limitation of animal testing
Public health and health insurance
69 Your health insurance in the EU
70 EU and public health
71 Innovative medicines
Regional development
72 EU Regional Development Fund
73 The EU Social Fund
74 Smart City – An EU Collaborative Programme
Foreign affairs and defence
75 European External Action Service (EEAS)
76 The EU’s common foreign and security policy
77 The EU’s common defence policy
Work and social rights
78 Labour law
79 Protection of employment in the event of takeover of companies
80 Cross-border workers
81 Move your pension
82 Social rights
Economics and trade
83 The European Semester
84 Stability and Growth Pact
85 Euro
86 European Central Bank
87 Banking union
88 Customs union
89 Tax policy
90 EU Audit Legislation
91 Business insolvencies
92 EU competition law
93 The EU’s crackdown on cartels
94 Measures against money laundering and terrorist financing
95 Circular economy
96 Timeshares
97 Economic studies
IT and telecoms
98 Digital Single Market
99 Data Protection Regulation
100 No roaming charges
101 5G