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European Coal and Steel Community

(Encyclopedia)European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), 1st treaty organization of what has become the European Union; established by the Treaty of Paris (1952). It is also known as the Schuman Plan, after the Fren...

European Astronaut Center

(Encyclopedia)European Astronaut Center (EAC): see European Space Agency. ...

European Central Bank

(Encyclopedia)European Central Bank: see under European Monetary System. ...

European corn borer

(Encyclopedia)European corn borer: see corn borer. ...

European Currency Unit

(Encyclopedia)European Currency Unit: see European Monetary System. ...

European Recovery Program

(Encyclopedia)European Recovery Program: see Marshall Plan. ...

European Southern Observatory

(Encyclopedia)European Southern Observatory (ESO), an intergovernmental organization for astronomical research with headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany. The ESO began in 1962 as a consortium among Belgiu...

European Space Agency

(Encyclopedia)European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. Member states in...

Central European Initiative

(Encyclopedia)Central European Initiative, organization founded in 1991 to promote economic and political cooperation in the region between the Adriatic and Baltic seas. Members include Austria, Bosnia and Herzegov...

Constitutional Union party

(Encyclopedia)Constitutional Union party, in U.S. history, formed when the conflict between North and South broke down the older parties. The Constitutional Union group, composed of former Whigs and remnants of the...