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This is a list of estimates of the real gross domestic product growth rate (not rebased GDP) in the 27 European Union member states for the latest years recorded in the CIA World Factbook. Although some countries have dependent territories (both within and outside Europe) that are considered part of the EU, they have been omitted given their ...
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.
[40] [41] [42] However, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine submitted an application for EU membership on 28 February 2022, followed by Georgia and Moldova on 3 March 2022. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] On 23 June 2022, the European Council granted candidate status to Moldova and Ukraine, and recognized Georgia as a potential candidate for ...
Ukraine applied for EU membership several days after it was invaded by Russia in February 2022, and was granted candidate status in June that year. Factbox-Candidates to join the European Union ...
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. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political conditions called the Copenhagen criteria (named after the Copenhagen summit in June 1993), which require a stable democratic government that ...
The primary resource for funding the European Union is the contributions sought from member states. Each member state contributes to the EU budget, and receives funding back from the EU, depending on the relative wealth of the states, i.e. their ability to pay. The table below shows the contributions as a percentage of the total budget.
There are three types of government systems in European politics: in a presidential system, the president is the head of state and the head of government; in a semi-presidential system, the president and the prime minister share a number of competences; finally, in a parliamentary republic, the president is a ceremonial figurehead who has few political competences.
The data in the table below are from the ordinary compliance check of all EU member states in May 2023, [12] with outturn data for the 2022 fiscal year as they were published on the Eurostat website in April 2023, [66] and budget values for 2023-2026 as they were reported by the submitted Stability programme or Convergence programme of each ...