European Union (EU)

Introduction: Europa.eu is the official website of the European Union. It is a good starting point if you are looking for information and services provided by the EU but you don't know your way around our sites.

This site gives you:

basic information on how the EU works
the latest EU news and events
links to EU information on the websites of EU institutions and agencies.

Who runs this site?
The site is run by the Communication department of the European Commission on behalf of the EU institutions.

How to use this site
You can search this site using one of our main topics, e.g. About the EU, Your Life in the EU, Take Part, or by using the search engine or A-Z index.

Signposts to EU information and services

The EU is one of the largest publishers of online information in the world and the hunt for information can seem complex. Every day a huge range of information goes online, including legislation, statistics, press releases, policy reports and more.

All EU institutions and agencies have their own websites. EU offices in each of the member countries and in countries around the world also have their own sites. Other online services address a range of topics, from finding a company’s VAT number to ordering EU publications and helping people looking for jobs abroad.

On this site we try to provide signposts to this information. We have tried to categorise this information in a clear way and we have provided descriptions of what you can expect to find behind each link.

Customer satisfaction

Europa.eu is designed for you. We work with website users to make the site structure and language of this site as clear as possible, but we are constantly looking at ways of improving.

To give us your comments, suggestions and feedback on how you find this site, please contact the Europa web team