A Guide to the European Union integration and recruitment

PART III: TESTS [samples]. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

The 300 questions are derived mainly from past papers and have been divided, for learning purposes, into:

  1. HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY [35 questions]
  2. INSTITUTIONS OF THE EU [75 questions]
    1. European Parliament
    2. European Commision
    3. The Council of the European Union
    4. The Court of Justice of the European Communities - The Court of First Instance
    5. Court of Auditors
    6. Economic and Social Committee
    7. Committee of the Regions
    8. Other European Institutions
  3. POLICIES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY [45 questions]
  4. ECONOMY OF THE EU[38 questions]
  5. THE EU AND THE REST OF THE WORLD [37 questions]
  6. GENERAL QUESTIONS ON THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY [56 questions]
  7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS [11 questions]


Some examples:

30. The European flag was adopted as the flag of the European Community in:

    1. 1993
    2. 1985
    3. 1951
    4. 1957

38. The European Parliament holds its pleanary session in:
    1. Strasbourg
    2. Brussels
    3. Luxembourg
    4. Bonn

44. How many women have served as presidents of the European Parliament:
    1. 0
    2. 2
    3. 1
    4. 3

52. The European Parliament is empowered to:
    1. modify the Council of Ministers' proposals on compulsory expenditure
    2. amend the Council of Ministers' proposals on compulsory expenditure
    3. reject the Council of Ministers' proposals on compulsory expenditure
    4. None of the above is true

59. Individual commissioners may be dismissed by the:
    1. Court of Justice
    2. European Parliament
    3. Council of Ministers
    4. Court of Justice in consultation with the EP

67. In an average year the Commission sends to the Council of Ministers between:
    1. 1000-1200 proposals
    2. 5000-6000 proposals
    3. 200-300 proposals
    4. 600-800 proposals

75. In the Council of Ministers unanimity is required for:
    1. social security
    2. EMU
    3. European Social Funds
    4. transport policy

84. Appeal to the decisions of the Court of Justice may be made to the:
    1. European Council
    2. International Court of Justice
    3. Council of Ministers
    4. None of the above is true

100. The Committee of the Regions was established by the:
    1. Single European Act and is a decision making body
    2. Maastricht Treaty and is decision making body
    3. Maastricht Treaty and is a consultative body
    4. Maastricht Treaty and it is not committed to the subsidiarity principle

113. One of the following is not a programme aimed at helping declining industries:
    1. RECHAR
    2. KONVER
    3. RESIDER
    4. YOUTHSTART

125. The Cohesion Fund finances programmes in member states:
    1. with a GDP of less than 90 per cent of the Community average
    2. which have been part of the Community for no more than 5 years
    3. with declining traditional industry
    4. with high foreign deficit

 

222. Currently the full members of the Western European Union are:

    1. all member states of the Community
    2. ten Community states
    3. all member states of the Community and Russia
    4. all member states of the Community, the U.S.A. and Canada

 

233. The world Europa, found in ancient Greek mythology, was assigned to:

    1. a geographical entity and a person
    2. a geographical entity
    3. a person
    4. a holy mountain

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