The Member States 7 June 2016, Consolidated version of the Treaty on European Union#TITLE I - COMMON PROVISIONS#Article 1 (ex Article 1 TEU)

7.6.2016 EN Official Journal of the European Union C 202/16 Article 1 (ex Article 1 TEU) (1) By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION, hereinafter called ‘the Union’, on which the Member States confer competences to attain objectives they have in common.