Europa (also written EUROPA), the official web portal of the European Union, is designed to improve the public’s interaction with the EU institutions by quickly directing website visitors to the services or information they are seeking. Europa links to all EU agencies and institutions in addition to press releases and audiovisual content from press conferences. Europa works also as an umbrella over the EU sites in the sense that all agencies and institutions have got their respective name, (or initials) plus .europa.eu as standard URL. For example, the Institute for Security Studies' address is iss.europa.eu. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixel Image in higher resolution (1024 × 576 pixel, file size: 244 KB, MIME type: image/png) This is a screenshot of a copyrighted web page, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by owner of the website. ... “URL” redirects here. ... For information regarding portals on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Portal. ... Berlaymont, the Commissions seat The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. ... The Directorate-General Communication is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. ... The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (Publications Office) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. ... For information regarding portals on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Portal. ... The agencies of the European Union (or decentralised bodies of the European Union) are bodies which are distinct from the European Unions institutions, in that they have not been created by the treaties but rather by acts of secondary legislation, in order to accomplish a very specific task. ... There are currently five institutions of the European Union which govern the Union. ... The European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) came into being on July 20, 2001 as a replacement to the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies, and thus represents a part of the transfer of functions from the Western European Union (WEU) to the European Union EU, and more...

Name

'Europa' is commonly recognised as the most neutral way of writing 'Europe' when it comes to "unifying" all EU languages into one web-portal name, because 'Europe' translates into 'Europa' in most EU languages, as well as the fact that the name of the continent originates from a character in Greek mythology called Europa. For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... Europa and Zeus, on the Greek €2 coin A commemorative Italian euro coin depicts Europa holding a pen over the text of the Constitution of Europe. ...

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Further information: Europa (mythology)

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Languages

All legislation and documents of political importance are published in all 23 official EU languages. Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish. Documents which are not legally binding are usually published in English, French and German. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Critisism

In January 2007, EU commissioner Franco Frattini criticised the web service for not translating an article about the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome in Italian, his own language.^[1] This type of uproars by speakers of other major EU languages happens occasionally. Franco Frattini (born 14 March 1957) is an Italian politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security. ... The Treaty of Rome signing ceremony Signatures in the Treaty The Treaty of Rome, signed by France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg) on March 25, 1957, established the European Economic Community (EEC). ...

See also: Languages of the European Union

Chameleon, a symbol of the multilingualism of the European Union. ...

Services

Europa also offers services such as Eur-Lex, a Publications Office and libraries of photographs, videos and audio for the Commission and the Parliament. EUR-Lex is a service on the official website of the European Union. ... The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (Publications Office) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. ...

See also

• EU Agencies
• EU Institutions
• USA.gov - Official Web portal of the United States

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References

External links

• Europa