EU Politics & Institutions Quiz

What’s inside the politics category?

• Institutions: Roles of Parliament, Council, Commission, and Court of Justice.
• Lawmaking: Ordinary procedure, qualified majority voting, trilogues.
• Policies: Single market, Green Deal, competition, cohesion and more.
• Democracy & accountability: Elections, Spitzenkandidaten, rule of law.

How to practice

Select Politics in the quiz, pick a difficulty, and answer 10 timed questions. New rounds reshuffle content so you can improve.

Keep learning

Explore our EU Videos for quick explainers or switch topics with the History and Geography guides.

Sample questions you might see

• Which policy areas require unanimity in the Council and which use qualified majority voting?
• What is the role of the Spitzenkandidat process and when is it applied?
• How do Parliament, Council, and Commission interact during trilogues?

Tips to score higher

• Memorize which institution initiates laws (Commission) and which amend/approve (Parliament & Council).
• Link procedures to examples: e.g., climate packages under the Green Deal use ordinary procedure.
• Watch institutional explainers in EU Videos to review before Hard mode.

Related practice

Connect lawmaking with context by revisiting History milestones or compare how policies impact member states in the Geography quiz.