Expect: Member countries, expected adoption logic, GDP shares and rule-based economic governance.

Use: Use as last-minute visual revision after reading the EMU booklets.

Expect: Six steps of economic integration, single market, euro area and coordination of fiscal/economic policy.

Use: Use for definition questions and “all EU states are in economic union, not all are in monetary union” traps.

Expect: Treaty of Rome, Werner Report, snake in the tunnel, EMS, Delors Report and Maastricht Treaty.

Use: Use for chronology questions and why EMU needed convergence.

Expect: Euro launch, ECB, Eurosystem, Eurogroup, Ecofin, Stability and Growth Pact, draft budgets and enlargement.

Use: Use for institution-role questions inside economic governance.

Expect: Benefits, single market complement, international role, banknotes, coins and glossary.

Use: Use for quick factual revision and terminology.

Expect: Military, financial, humanitarian, diplomatic and accession-related support.

Use: Use for Ukraine examples and external-policy questions.

Expect: Competitiveness Compass, Single Market, Clean Industrial Deal, digital, AI, critical raw materials and finance.

Use: Use for green/digital/industry examples.

Expect: Defence readiness, industrial capability, internal security and resilience.

Use: Use for security and strategic autonomy.

Expect: Skills, education, social policy, workers and equality.

Use: Use for social and skills-policy answers.

Expect: Agriculture, food, rural policy, health and consumer-facing policy.

Use: Use for CAP, health and everyday impact examples.

Expect: Rule of law, democracy, rights and civic resilience.

Use: Use for values and democracy-shield context.

Expect: Partnerships, trade, neighbourhood, enlargement, humanitarian aid and global stability.

Use: Use for external action.

Expect: Forward-looking reform, preparedness and future capacity.

Use: Use for closing examples in written tests.

Expect: Union definition, values, citizen rights, single market, Schengen and euro basics.

Use: Use for fast grounding and simple definitions.

Expect: Budget, NextGenerationEU, Ukraine, climate, digital, cancer, equality and security.

Use: Use for current-affairs examples in plain words.

Expect: Culture, living/working/studying, funding and regional investment examples.

Use: Use for “EU impact on citizens” questions.

Expect: EU milestones, treaties, Parliament, Council, Commission and civic participation.

Use: Use as first institutional map.

Expect: Europe Direct, Europa, Your Europe, ECC, Youth Portal, Learning Corner and EU publications.

Use: Use as source-follow-up list.

Expect: Independence, competitiveness, security, skills, democracy and future budget.

Use: Use to frame 2024-2029 Commission priorities.

Expect: Competitiveness Compass, NextGenerationEU, clean industry, steel, critical raw materials, AI factories, research, trade and cohesion.

Use: Use for concise current-policy examples.

Expect: SAFE, defence industry, Schengen, ProtectEU, migration and support to Ukraine.

Use: Use for security and Ukraine revision.

Expect: Rule of law, democracy shield, civil society, equality, youth, 2028-2034 budget and enlargement.

Use: Use for democracy and budget examples.

Expect: Palestinian Authority, Donor Group, Mediterranean pact and Global Gateway.

Use: Use for external action examples.

Expect: Independence moment, Ukraine, defence, Gaza, competitiveness, fairness, migration, climate resilience and democratic delivery.

Use: Use for political framing and speech-ready policy language.

Expect: Upcoming priorities: competitiveness, defence, food/water/nature, democracy, global Europe and budget.

Use: Use for near-future policy signals.

Expect: Clean Industrial Deal, energy affordability, simplification, single market, life sciences, savings and investments, skills and equality.

Use: Use for economic and industrial agenda.

Expect: Defence readiness, Ukraine, sanctions, cyber, Schengen, migration and critical infrastructure.

Use: Use for security-policy cluster.

Expect: Partnerships, trade, enlargement, ocean, Mediterranean and humanitarian role.

Use: Use for external action.

Expect: Democracy, long-term budget, preparedness, Ukraine financing and own resources.

Use: Use for budget and democracy examples.

Expect: Month-by-month first-year events.

Use: Use as lookup, not as a cover-to-cover read.

Expect: Difference between European Council and Council of the EU, why institutions differ, and where they meet.

Use: Use to remove name-confusion traps.

Expect: Strategic role, president, conclusions, consensus and history.

Use: Use for “sets direction, does not legislate” questions.

Expect: Council role, legislation, voting rules, configurations, presidency and meeting rhythm.

Use: Use for Council mechanics.

Expect: Who chairs what, Coreper I/II, preparation and expert working parties.

Use: Use for policy-file lifecycle questions.

Expect: General Secretariat, qualified majority, voting levels and how proposals become legislation.

Use: Use for decision procedure.

Expect: MFF, own resources, annual budget, Foreign Affairs Council, sanctions and UN participation.

Use: Use for budget/external action questions.

Expect: CJEU mission, Court of Justice, General Court, preliminary rulings, direct actions, appeals and citizens.

Use: Use for judicial-role questions.

Expect: Registries, hearing, Advocate General opinions, deliberation and delivery.

Use: Use for process questions and case-flow understanding.

Expect: Language arrangements, interpreting, library and staff.

Use: Use for multilingual EU justice context.

Expect: Public relations, visits, environmental action, buildings, Court numbers and map.

Use: Use for low-priority background.

Expect: Why the publication exists, Council of the EU versus European Council, and Council of Europe warning.

Use: Use as reinforcement after the Council booklet.

Expect: ECSC Special Council, Rome Treaties, empty-chair crisis, Merger Treaty, Maastricht, Lisbon, digital reality, Coreper and Secretariat.

Use: Use for historical sequence and treaty-change questions.

Expect: Summits from 1957/1961, 1974 creation, Single European Act, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, Constitution, Lisbon and post-Lisbon presidents.

Use: Use for summit and leadership evolution.

Expect: Treaty reforms, enlargement from 6 to 27, summit chronology and qualified majority voting evolution.

Use: Use as lookup table, not first read.

Expect: Whether spending adds value, risks are controlled, and objectives are achieved economically, efficiently and effectively.

Use: Use for audit role in one minute.

Expect: Infrastructure, green projects, jobs, recovery funds, auditors’ backgrounds, field visits and reports to Parliament, Council and citizens.

Use: Use for budget accountability.

Expect: Economic policy coordination, monetary policy, euro area and convergence.

Use: Use for core definitions.

Expect: Member States, European Council, Euro Summit, Ecofin, Eurogroup, Commission, ECB, Eurosystem, ESCB, ESM and Parliament.

Use: Use for role questions.

Expect: Werner, Delors, Maastricht, convergence criteria, ERM II and euro-adoption timeline.

Use: Use for chronology and criteria.

Expect: Sovereign debt crisis, economic governance, European Semester, ESM, banking union and Five Presidents’ Report.

Use: Use for governance and crisis-response questions.

Expect: COVID-19, Ukraine, energy prices, NextGenerationEU, ESM changes and resilience.

Use: Use for linking EMU to current affairs.

Expect: Eight competencies and the idea of observable anchors.

Use: Use before preparing competency examples.

Expect: Critical thinking, decision-making, digital/data literacy and source evaluation.

Use: Use for written exercises and interviews.

Expect: Self-management, working together, learning and communication anchors.

Use: Use for STAR stories and oral examples.

Expect: Change, initiative, empowering others and ambassador behaviour.

Use: Use for leadership examples.

Expect: EU law as integration thread, Treaty of Paris/Rome, direct effect, primacy, Commission Legal Service and crisis-driven integration.

Use: Read this early if EU law is part of your competition.

Expect: Fundamental values, constitutional identity, rule-of-law conditionality and human rights.

Use: Use for values/rule-of-law depth.

Expect: EU citizenship, data protection and transformation from economic community to citizens’ union.

Use: Use for rights and free-movement examples.

Expect: Environment, climate, agriculture, fisheries and tax obstacles.

Use: Use for policy-law examples.

Expect: Competition enforcement, State aid remedies and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

Use: Use for internal market and competition law.

Expect: Infringement procedure, internal market clock master, legislative quality and EU civil service law.

Use: Use for enforcement, legislative quality and staff-law context.

Expect: Future reform debates, passerelle clauses and Treaty-change issues.

Use: Use as advanced material.