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The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed by the treaties to share their own sovereignty through the institutions of the European Union in certain aspects of government.
The territories of the member states of the European Union (European Communities pre-1993), animated in order of accession. Territories outside Europe and its immediate surroundings are not shown. The European Union (EU) has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member states to the Union.
2016 – UK holds a Membership Referendum and votes to leave the European Union 2017 – Negotiations between UK and the EU officially started in June 2017 2017 – Start of Brexit : On 29 March 2017, the Government of the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union .
Also in the same year, the European Union and the United States pledged to cut methane emissions by 30% by 2030. The pledge is considered as a big achievement for climate change mitigation. [173] A research report from November 2024 declared that the Czech Republic is the EU's most toxic country in Europe for care emissions. [174]
Density of Population in the European Union 2014. Lists of member states of the European Union provide different types of information about each of the states in the European Union. They include lists about politics, demographics and economics.
In July 2023, Erdoğan brought up Turkey's accession to EU membership up in the context of Sweden's application for NATO membership. [85] However, in September 2023, he announced that the European Union was well into a rupture in its relations with Turkey and that they could part ways during Turkey's European Union membership process. [86]
The European Union (EU) was originally created by six founding states in 1958, but has grown to its current size of 27 member states. There were five successive enlargements during this period, with the largest occurring on May 1, 2004, when 10 member states joined.
This was the EU's fourth enlargement and came into effect on 1 January of that year. It is also known as the EFTA Enlargement round. [1] All these states were previous members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and had traditionally been less interested in joining the EU than other European countries.