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NATO in 2025 . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
Non-EU NATO member states Albania: Candidate — 2009 Iceland: No — Founder Montenegro: Candidate — 2017 North Macedonia: Candidate — 2020 Norway: Defence Agency agreement — Founder Turkey Candidate — 1952 United Kingdom: No — Founder European countries outside both the EU and NATO Andorra No — No Armenia No — Individual ...
Certain countries are further subdivided the United Kingdom has gb-gbn for Great Britain and gb-nir for Northern Ireland. Russia is divided into ru-kgd for the Kaliningrad Oblast and ru-main for the Main body of Russia.
Several central and Eastern European countries began marking on Thursday the 20th anniversary of the largest expansion of the NATO military alliance when formerly socialist countries became ...
English: Map showing the current affiliations of European countries with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Non-European NATO areas, such as the United States, Canada, Greenland (autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark), and French Guiana (overseas department and region of France), are not included on the map.
1 These countries are currently not participating in the EU's single market (EEA), but the EU has common external Customs Union agreements with Turkey (EU-Turkey Customs Union in force since 1995), Andorra (since 1991) and San Marino (since 2002). Monaco participates in the EU customs union through its relationship with France; its ports are ...
Cyprus is the only EU member state that is neither a NATO member state nor a member of the PfP program. The Parliament of Cyprus voted in February 2011 to apply for membership in the program, but President Demetris Christofias vetoed the decision, arguing that it would hamper his attempts to negotiate an end to the Cyprus dispute and demilitarize the island.
Western officials, including the leaders of those “new NATO” countries, view all those measures as purely defensive. Putin, they note, is not the kind of leader who makes neighbors comfortable.