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European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights
The European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) was the EU's funding instrument for civil-society democracy and human rights projects, created in 1994 and merged into NDICI–Global Europe in 2021.
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) is an EU body, seated in Frankfurt, that coordinates national supervision of insurers, reinsurers, and occupational pension funds across the EU.
European Investment Bank
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union's financing arm, founded in 1958, owned by its member states, and one of the largest multilateral development banks.
European journal of cancer : official journal for European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) [and] European Association for Cancer Research (EACR)
European Journal of Cancer (EJC), ISSN 0959-8049, Elsevier oncology journal since 1990, official journal of EORTC and EUSOMA; continues the 1965 Pergamon title and EJCC; 18 issues yearly, Impact Factor 10.002 (2021).
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology
The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal, the official publication of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology, published by Oxford University Press.
European journal of protistology
European Journal of Protistology (Eur J Protistol), Elsevier protistology journal founded 1987 at volume 23 as successor to Protistologica; print ISSN 0932-4739, online 1618-0429, Jena, Germany, five issues yearly.
European Le Mans Series
European Le Mans Series (ELMS), formerly Le Mans Endurance Series and Le Mans Series, is the ACO's European endurance championship: six 4-hour races at Barcelona, Le Castellet, Imola, Spa, Silverstone, Portimão, with 47 cars in LMP2, LMP2 Pro/Am, LMP3, and LMGT3 and Le Mans invitations for champions.
European League of Football
European League of Football (ELF): professional American football league for Europe founded 2020 by Patrick Esume and Zeljko Karajica, launched June 2021 with eight NFL-style franchises, reached 16 teams in 2025, then collapsed into insolvency in 2026.
European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet
European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet (ELA), launched September 2024 and registered 27 September 2024, is a European political party of green-left, feminist transformative-left parties with 11 member parties from 10 countries, split from the older Party of the European Left.
European Luge Championships
The European Luge Championships are the continental luge championships of Europe, organized by the International Luge Federation. Held since 1914 and annual since 2012, they run as a race-in-race event inside a Luge World Cup weekend.
European macroseismic scale
The European Macroseismic Scale 1998 (EMS-98) is a twelve-degree seismic intensity scale, developed from the MSK-64 scale and used as the standard for rating earthquake shaking in European countries.
European mantis
European mantis (Mantis religiosa, Linnaeus 1758), a large generalist praying mantis native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, introduced to North America from 1899 and expanding northward in Europe with climate warming.
European Marine Energy Centre
The European Marine Energy Centre, established in Orkney, Scotland in 2003, is a grid-connected test center where developers trial wave and tidal energy devices in real sea conditions.
European Medicines Agency
European Medicines Agency (EMA), EU decentralised agency in Amsterdam (formerly London, 1995-2019) that scientifically evaluates medicines; CHMP/CVMP recommend, European Commission authorises within 67 days, valid EU-wide and in EEA.
European Men's Handball Championship
The European Men's Handball Championship is the biennial championship for men's national handball teams in Europe, first held in 1994 and organized by the European Handball Federation.
European microstates
European microstates: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican City, often with Malta. Tiny sovereign states using the euro via EU monetary agreements; none but Malta is in the EU; economies rest on tourism and financial services.
European mink
European mink (Mustela lutreola), a small semi-aquatic mustelid native to Europe, IUCN Critically Endangered, persisting in under 3% of its historic range mainly in the Danube Delta, Spain, France, and Russia, threatened by the invasive American mink and habitat loss.
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is an intergovernmental molecular biology research organization founded in 1974, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, with six sites and more than 30 member states.
European Monetary System
The European Monetary System (EMS) was a framework of monetary cooperation among European Community member states, in force from 1979 until European Monetary Union began in 1999.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), EU decentralised agency in Lisbon, 1993–2024, providing comparable drug data; replaced 2 July 2024 by the European Union Drugs Agency (EUDA) under Regulation (EU) 2023/1322.
European Neighbourhood Policy
European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), EU foreign policy framework created in 2004 (from a 2003 Wider Europe communication) for 16 southern and eastern neighbors, offering cooperation, DCFTAs, and funding (ENI, then NDICI) without membership, revised in 2011 and 2015.
European Network of Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authorities
The European Network of Civil Aviation Safety Investigation Authorities (ENCASIA) is the network of EU Member States' civil aviation safety investigation authorities, created by Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 in 2011.
European olympic committees
European Olympic Committees (EOC), formerly ACNOE, founded 1968: continental association of Europe's 50 National Olympic Committees, headquartered in Rome, led by Spyros Kapralos, staging the European Games, EYOFs, and Games of the Small States of Europe.
European Orchestra Federation
The European Orchestra Federation (EOFed) is a European umbrella organization uniting amateur and youth orchestras through national federations, founded in 2009 and known for its triennial European Orchestra Festival.
European Orienteering Championships
The European Orienteering Championships (EOC) are the International Orienteering Federation's event awarding the titles of European Champion in foot orienteering, first held in Norway in 1962.
European paper wasp
European paper wasp (Polistes dominula), a Palearctic primitively eusocial Vespidae wasp invasive across North and South America, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand; nests in human structures, preys on caterpillars, competes with native Polistes.
European Paralympic Committee
European Paralympic Committee (EPC), Vienna-based non-profit regional body of the Paralympic Movement; founded 1991 as IPC European Committee, renamed 1999; runs European Para Youth Games and patrons European Para Championships; president Raymon Blondel.
European Parliament
European Parliament: directly elected EU legislative chamber of 720 MEPs serving five-year terms, co-legislator with the Council, first directly elected in 1979, EPP largest group since the 2024 elections.
European Parliament resolution on Civil Law Rules on Robotics
The European Parliament resolution on Civil Law Rules on Robotics, adopted 16 February 2017 on rapporteur Mady Delvaux's report, urged the Commission to propose EU civil law rules for robotics and AI.
European Payments Union
The European Payments Union was a multilateral clearing arrangement created by 18 OEEC members in 1950, letting each settle only its net position until currency convertibility ended it in 1958.