Flashcards: Europe

Cordon sanitaire (French pronunciation: ​[kɔʁdɔ̃ sanitɛʁ]) is a French phrase that, literally translated, means "sanitary cordon".

Eurocentrism (also "Western-centrism") is political term coined in the 1980s, referring to the notion of European exceptionalism, a worldview centered on Western civilization, as it had developed during the height of the European colonial empires since the Early Modern period.

European Monetary System (EMS) was an arrangement established in 1979 under the Jenkins European Commission where most nations of the European Economic Community (EEC) linked their currencies to prevent large fluctuations relative to one another.

Model European Union Strasbourg (commonly known as MEUS) is the original simulation of the European Union’s legislative process organised by BETA e.

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launched along with the Bologna Process' decade anniversary, in March 2010, during the Budapest-Vienna Ministerial Conference.

Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE), also known as Stop the Islamification of Europe, is a group with the stated goal of "preventing Islam from becoming a dominant political force in Europe".

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are widely diverse in Europe per country.

The Schengen Area (pronunciation: /ˈʃɛŋən/, /ˈʃɛŋɡən/) is the area including 26 European countries that have abolished passport and any other type of border control at their mutual borders.

Presseurop was a multilingual Paris-based news portal that translated and published Europe-related news articles daily from over two hundred sources into ten European languages, including English.

The Assembly of European Regions (AER) is the largest independent network of regions in wider Europe.

The genetic history of Europe is complicated because European populations have a complicated demographic history, including many successive periods of population growth.

European BEST Engineering Competition (EBEC) is an annual engineering competition organised by the Board of European Students of Technology (BEST).

EUobserver is an independent online newspaper established in Brussels in 2000.

ENEN, the European Nuclear Education Network, is a nonprofit European association created on 22 September 2003 under the endorsement of EURATOM.

The European Jewish Parliament or EJP (formerly known as European Jewish Union or EJU) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Brussels whose stated aim is to be "a uniting structure for all Jewish communities and organizations throughout Western, Eastern and Central Europe.

West Indian Ocean Cable Company (WIOCC) operates as a wholesaler, providing capacity to international, African telecos and internet service providers within and out of Africa.

The Council of European Professional and Managerial Staff (EUROCADRES) is an recognised cross-industry social partner in the European Social Dialogue and in collective bargaining, representing Professional and Managerial Staff (P&MS) in Europe.

The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) adopted ISO 8601 with EN 28601, now EN ISO 8601.