European Commission
The Commission is independent of national governments. Its job is to represent and uphold the interests of the EU as a whole. The European Commission is the executive branch of the European Union.
Like the Parliament and Council, the European Commission was set up in the 1950s under the EU’s founding treaties.
The European Commission has four main roles:
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to propose legislation to Parliament and the Council;
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to manage and implement EU policies and the budget;
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to enforce European law (jointly with the Court of Justice);
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to represent the European Union on the international stage, for example by negotiating agreements between the EU and other countries.
List of all the institutions, financial bodies, advisory bodies and interinstitutional bodies of the European Union as well as EU agencies. Just click the name of the institution, body or agency of your interest and you will be forwarded to its website.
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/index_en.htm