Student zone - Web Guide
There is a great deal of information available about the EU and its policies on the internet. This web guide lists some of the websites that are especially useful.
The best starting point is the EU’s own Europa website, which provides access to homepages covering all of the EU’s institutions and policies:
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
Within this website, an especially useful source for updating on all EU activities is the EU News site at:
http://europa.eu.int/abc/doc/off/bull/en/welcome/htm
Other useful government websites dealing with EU institutions, treaties, and policies include:
EU Member States
The governments and parliaments of all member states maintain EU-related websites of various sorts.
UNC Global Center for European Studies maintains a website with links to sources of all EU member states:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/europe/teachingresources/weblinks-country.htm
Working Papers, Documents, Conference Papers
Archive of European Integration
http://aei.pitt.edu/view/
European Research Papers Archive is a portal to major online paper series
http://eiop.or.at/erpa/
Notre Europe papers on European integration
www.notre-europe.asso.fr
Peer-reviewed Journals
European Integration online Papers (EIoP)
http://eiop.or.at/erpa/eiop.htm
Journal of European Integration
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/geui20
European Union Politics
http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200928
Journal of Common Market Studies
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-5965
Journal of European Public Policy
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/current
Journal of Contemporary European Research
http://www.jcer.net/index.php/jcer
Think Tanks
The websites of the following research centres/think tanks include useful policy briefs and t articles on key issues:
Center for European Policy Studies (Brussels)
http://www.ceps.be/
Center for European Reform (London)
http://www.cer.org.uk/
Center for Transatlantic Relations (Washington, D.C.)
http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/index.htm
Center for United States and Europe (Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.)
http://www.brookings.edu/cuse.aspx
European Policy Centre (Brussels)
http://www.epc.eu/index.php
The Federal Trust
http://www.fedtrust.co.uk/
EU News
www.EurActiv.com
euobserver
http://euobserver.com/
The Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/
European Voice
http://www.europeanvoice.com/
Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/world/europe
Guardian EU page
http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/0,7368,396838,00.html
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/europe/index.html
The database on EU Governance Literature GOV-LIT is a bibliographic resource for research on EU governance which brings together information about publications on EU governance from a variety of sources:
http://www.connex-network.org/govlit
The websites of three academic professional websites provide many useful links:
Rich Site Summary (RSS)
RSS feeds can be read using a RSS reader. Here is a list of several RSS feeds to which users can subscribe to receive regular updates about EU news and policy:
