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How did the term U come to refer to volts in EU. Is it from a foreign language word for volts?

Not that I'm aware of, unless one of our other European members has a suggestion:

tension (French)
Spannung (German)
voltaje (Spanish)
tensione (Italian)

In Britain we always used to use V or E for voltage.

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I suspect they simply took the preceding letter in the alphabet.