LINKS:

Essential starting point for every research into EU matters is the EU website: http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm.

Check out the different institutions:     The Council of Ministers  http://ue.eu.int/showPage.ASP?lang=en
                                                           The European Commission http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm
                                                           The European Parliament http://www.europarl.eu.int/home/default_en.htm
                                                           The European Court of Justice  http://curia.eu.int/en/index.htm
                                                            The European Central Bank  http://www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html
                                                                            (How is the Euro doing vis-a-vis the dollar? http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html)

                   Public opinion: How do Europeans feel about the EU and other political matters? Use the Euro-Barometer polls:
                   http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm

Research on the European Union
check these journals

<>European Integration Online Papers  – first double-blind reviewed online series with working paper character up to 2002, now run as peer-reviewed E-journal; http://eiop.or.at/eiop/  

• European Journal of International Law (EJIL) –  
• European Journal of International Relations (EJIR) 
• European Law Journal (ELJ) (Florence) – 
• European Sociological Review – discipline: sociology;
  
• European Union Politics – discipline: pol.sci.;
• European University Institute (EUI) Working Papers: http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Publications/BrowseType.shtml
• The European Union Review – discipline: pol.sci.; 
• EUSA Review – discussion forum of EUSA, the European Union Studies Association (does not contain all papers): http://www.eustudies.org/home.html  
• ZSE – The Journal for Comparative Government and European Policy (“Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften”) aims at analysing the performance of the public sector at the European, national, regional and local level, with special emphasis on processes of organisational reform, mutual adaptation and “institutional learning” in both EU-member and other European nation-states. Contributions are published in German, English, and (occasionally) French.

<>JCER – Journal of Contemporary European Research, launched in mid 2005 by the UACES Students Forum  
Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS): very important for EU research
• Journal of European Integration – (Revue D'Intégration Eurpéenne)
  
• Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) – discipline: pol.sci.; 
• West European Politics – discipline: pol.sci; political systems fo Western Europe