unional

Adjective

unional (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a union.
   • When man is unional, the spirit conceives and brings forth strength, the soul listens to wisdom and is led into security, the body has issue in stedfastness and peace.1843, The New Age, Concordium Gazette, & Temperance Advocate
   • The revolutionary action of the party is expressed through the specific means of the unional organization, consequently through the general strike , perfected with all means which revolutionary experience shall successively advise, and transfers the functions of the state to the unional organs or...1907, International Socialist Review, volume 7, page 345
2. (rare, relational) Pertaining to the European Union.
   • PM Huber conceives the European principle of democracy as giving the individual through unional as well as national procedures a sufficiently effective opportunity to influence the basic decisions of European policy. […] Yet it would be a misunderstanding of the unional principle of democracy to...2006, Armin von Bogdandy, “Constitutional principles of Europe”, in Eibe Riedel, Rüdiger Wolfrum, editors, Recent Trends in German and European Constitutional Law: German Reports Presented to the...
   • The principle of conferral binds the EU with respect to any unional action and can be understood as a presumption in favour of the competences of the Member States.2011 October 12, Albrecht Weber, “The Distribution of Competences between the Union and the Member States”, in Hermann-Josef Blanke, Stelio Mangiameli, editors, The European Union after Lisbon...