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The following timeline outlines the legal inception of the European Union (EU)—the principal framework for this unification. The EU inherited many of its present responsibilities from the European Communities (EC), which were founded in the 1950s in the spirit of the Schuman Declaration .
Around 60 countries gained independence from the United Kingdom throughout its history, the most in the world, followed by around 40 countries that gained independence from France throughout its history. [1] Over 50% of the world's borders today were drawn as a result of British and French imperialism. [2] [3] [4]
Russia placed all member states of the European Union on a list of "unfriendly countries", along with NATO members (except Turkey), Switzerland, Ukraine, and several Asia-Pacific countries. [ 2 ] The bilateral relations of individual EU member states and Russia vary, though a 1990s common foreign policy outline towards Russia was the first such ...
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 European Union since 1945 (Routledge, 2014). Chaban, N. and M. Holland, eds. Communicating Europe in Times of Crisis: External Perceptions of the European Union (2014). Dedman, Martin. The origins and development of the European Union 1945-1995: a history of European integration (Routledge, 2006). De Vries, Catherine E. "Don't Mention the War!
European Union has visa-free regime agreements with some European countries outside EU and discussing such agreements with others; Armenia, [43] Russia, [44] [45] Ukraine, [46] and Moldova. [47] Matters concerning Turkey have also been debated. [48] [49] Ireland maintains an independent visa policy in the EU.
In 2007, EU countries as a whole imported 82 per cent of their oil, 57 per cent of their natural gas [209] and 97.48 per cent of their uranium [210] demands. The three largest suppliers of natural gas to the European Union are Russia, Norway and Algeria, that amounted for about three quarters of the imports in 2019. [211]
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862). The history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs. [1] [2] The traditional start date of specifically Russian history is the establishment of the Rus' state in the north in the year 862, ruled by Varangians.