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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.
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 .
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.
European Council sets negotiations start date: 12 December 1997 [6] 10 December 1999 Membership negotiations start: 31 March 1998 15 February 2000 Membership negotiations end: 13 December 2002 13 December 2002 Accession Treaty signature: 16 April 2003 16 April 2003 EU joining date: 1 May 2004 1 May 2004 Acquis chapter: 1. Free Movement of Goods ...
The 1990s also saw the further development of the euro. 1 January 1994 saw the second stage of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union begin with the establishment of the European Monetary Institute and at the start of 1999 the euro as a currency was launched and the European Central Bank was established. On 1 January 2002, notes ...
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. [9] [10] [11] The Union has a total area of 4,233,255 km 2 (1,634,469 sq mi) and an estimated total population of over 449 million.
The two eastern European nations made a breakthrough in their bid to join the Area in late 2023
The 26 September 2006 of the European Commission [6] confirmed the date once more, ... (ЕВРО) alphabet, as a result of Bulgaria joining the European Union in 2007