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European Astronaut Centre
The European Astronaut Centre is the European Space Agency's center for astronaut selection, training, and medical support, established in 1990 in Cologne, Germany, and home to ESA's astronaut corps.
European athletics championships
European Athletics Championships, continental track and field championship organised by European Athletics, first held Turin 1934; biennial, 27th edition Birmingham 2026, next Silesia 2028.
European Automobile Manufacturers' Association
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, ACEA from its French name, is the Brussels-based trade association representing 17 major European car, van, truck, and bus manufacturers before EU institutions.
European badger
European badger (Meles meles), or Eurasian badger, a striped-faced mustelid of Europe and western Asia living in family clans in underground setts; UK's largest land predator, earthworm-eating, protected under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.
European balance of power
European balance of power: the principle since the seventeenth century of preventing any single European state from dominating, spanning Westphalia, Utrecht, Vienna, the Concert of Europe, the Cold War NATO-Warsaw Pact equilibrium, and today's EU-Russia balance.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is a multilateral development bank founded in 1991 to help former communist countries move to market economies.
European Banking Authority
The European Banking Authority (EBA) is an independent EU agency that sets common regulatory and supervisory standards for EU banks and coordinates EU-wide stress tests every two years.
European Battery Alliance
The European Battery Alliance (EBA) is a European Commission platform launched in October 2017 with EU member states and industry to build a competitive, sustainable battery value chain in Europe.
European beach volleyball championships
CEV EuroBeachVolley, the annual European Beach Volleyball Championships run by the CEV since 1993 (women since 1994); Mol/Sørum hold a record five men's titles, Ludwig four women's titles, and the 2026 champions in Stare Jabłonki earned LA28 Olympic quotas.
European beewolf
The European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) is a solitary digger wasp that hunts honey bees to feed its larvae in sandy burrows, ranging across Europe, the Middle East, and South Africa.
European Biogas Association
The European Biogas Association (EBA) is a Brussels-based non-profit, founded in 2009, that promotes biogas and biomethane in Europe through about 350 members and its annual Statistical Report.
European bison
European bison (Bison bonasus, wisent), Europe's largest land mammal, extinct in the wild by the early 20th century, saved by 1920s zoo breeding, and reintroduced; over 9,100 now live in Europe, IUCN near threatened since 2020.
European Bison Sanctuary
A European bison sanctuary is a managed enclosure or reserve where European bison, the largest terrestrial mammal in Europe, are kept for breeding, conservation, education, or public display.
European bob & skeleton championships
European Bobsleigh and Skeleton Championships, the IBSF continental titles first held in Davos in 1929; 74 editions through 2026, annual since 1965, with skeleton titles since 2003 and Janine Flock holding twelve medals.
European Border Breakers Award
European Border Breakers Award (EBBA), an annual EU prize from 2004 rewarding ten emerging European artists for first international release success; organised at Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen, renamed Music Moves Europe Awards in 2019/2022.
European Bowling Tour
European Bowling Tour (EBT), annual series of open tenpin bowling tournaments run by the European Bowling Federation; five prize-fund tiers from Satellite to Platinum, gender rankings, and the EBT Masters final for the top 8 women and men.
European Bowling Tour Masters
EBT Masters, the season-ending final of the European Bowling Tour since 2008, run by the European Tenpin Bowling Federation. Top 8 men and women per division; first held 2008 in Ankara; 2026 champions Ben Robinson and Nora Johansson.
European Bridge League championships
The European Bridge League championships, also called the European Team Championships, are Europe's zonal national-team bridge championships, first held in 1932 and qualifying teams for world events.
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is a not-for-profit association of public service broadcasters, seated in Geneva and founded in 1950, best known for organizing the Eurovision Song Contest.
European brown hare syndrome virus (disease)
European brown hare syndrome virus is a calicivirus that causes European brown hare syndrome, an acute and usually fatal hepatitis of hares, first detected in Sweden in 1980.
European canoe slalom championships
European canoe slalom championships (Paddle Europe Slalom Championships since 2026): annual continental slalom and kayak cross titles run by the ECA, founded 1993; first ECA-era edition Augsburg 1996; 2026 was the 27th edition in Ivrea.
European Capital of Culture
European Capital of Culture (ECoC), annual EU cultural title launched in 1985 by Melina Mercouri; Athens held the first year. Cities are selected six years ahead, receive the €1.5m Melina Mercouri Prize, and leverage about €900 million in cultural investment.
European carbon price
The European carbon price is the market price, in euros per tonne of CO2, of an emission allowance under the EU Emissions Trading System, a cap-and-trade system launched in 2005.
European Central Bank
The European Central Bank (Europäische Zentralbank) is the central bank of the euro area, which has set monetary policy for the euro since 1999 and supervised banks since 2014.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), EU agency in Stockholm operational since May 2005 after the SARS outbreak; runs TESSy and EWRS surveillance, rapid risk assessments, and since the 2022 mandate EU reference laboratories and the EU Health Task Force.
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is an independent intergovernmental organization in Reading, UK, whose global forecasts and climate reanalyses serve 35 states.
European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law
European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL), Europäisches Zentrum für Schadenersatz- und Versicherungsrecht, a non-profit research association founded 1999 in Vienna; institutional home of the European Group on Tort Law and its Principles of European Tort Law.
European Champion Clubs' Cup
The European Champion Clubs' Cup was Europe's premier club football competition, a knockout tournament for domestic champions launched in 1955 and renamed the UEFA Champions League in 1992.
European Championships (multi-sport event)
Multi-sport European Championships, a quadrennial event launched in Glasgow and Berlin 2018 by ECM, combining existing European championships of sports like athletics, cycling, and gymnastics; second edition Munich 2022, next editions 2026, 2030, 2034.
European Championships of Ski Mountaineering
ISMF European Championships of Ski Mountaineering, the biennial continental ski mountaineering title event; 2024 in Flaine-Chamonix, 2026 in Shahdag, Azerbaijan with 115 athletes from 17 nations in sprint, mixed relay, individual, and vertical races.