2. What Is European Union?
The European Union is a unique economic and political
partnership between 28 European countries.
It has delivered half a century of peace, stability, and
prosperity, helped raise living standards, launched a
single European currency, and is progressively building a
single Europe-wide market in which people, goods,
services, and capital move among Member States as
freely as within one country.
3. Why the European Union?
The EU’s mission in the 21st century is to:
Maintain and build on the peace established between its
member states.
Bring European countries together in practical cooperation.
Ensure that European citizens can live in security.
Promote economic and social solidarity.
Preserve European identity and diversity in a globalised world.
Promulgate the values that Europeans share.
4. System and Policy of
European Union
Politics
European Parliament, European Council, Council of the European
Union, European Commission, Budget, Competences
Legal system
Courts of Justice, Fundamental rights, Acts
Social policy
European Social Policy Network (ESPN), EU Social Inclusion Policy,
Collaboration on EU Social Policy and Measures
6. How does the EU spend its money?
2017 EU budget: € 157.9 billion = 1.05 % of gross national income
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8. Brexit
On 23 June 2016 citizens of the United
Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European
Union (EU). On 29 March 2017 the UK
formally notified the European Council of
its intention to leave the EU by triggering of
Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
For the time being, the United Kingdom
remains a full member of the EU and rights
and obligations continue to fully apply in
and to the UK.
9. Bangladesh-EU Relation
In 2001 the EU-Bangladesh cooperation agreement was signed which
laid the foundation of trade relations.
The European Union provided Bangladesh duty free access to the Union
market under the Everything but Arms (EBA) initiative.
The European Union is Bangladesh's largest trading parting accounting
for 24 percent Bangladesh's total trade.
Bangladesh in the unions 35 largest trading partner.
Clothing makes 90 percent of all export from Bangladesh to the EU. EU
exports consists mostly of machinery and transport equipment at 49
percent.
The Everything but Arms scheme is expected to end in 2021 when
Bangladesh is predicted to graduate to the developing country.