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The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
The code XK is being used by the European Commission, [28] the IMF, the SWIFT, [29] the CLDR, and other organizations as a temporary country code for Kosovo. [ 30 ] The code XN is being used by WIPO as an indicator for the Nordic Patent Institute , an international organization common to Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
European Union (EU) concepts, acronyms, and jargon are a terminology set that has developed as a form of shorthand, to quickly express a (formal) EU process, an (informal) institutional working practice, or an EU body, function or decision, and which is commonly understood among EU officials or external people who regularly deal with EU institutions.
ECOWAS: The Economic Community of West African States, a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Eastern Partnership, a group of former soviet republics forging closer economic and political ties with the European Union. Members include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
According to the Copenhagen criteria, membership of the European Union is open to any European country that is a stable, free-market liberal democracy that respects the rule of law and human rights. Furthermore, it has to be willing to accept all the obligations of membership, such as adopting all previously agreed law (the 170,000 pages of ...
European Union: European Union: EU is an exceptionally reserved ISO 3166-1 code. Restricted to legal and natural persons in European Union member states. Previously unofficially used for sites in the Basque language, but now .eus is in official use. EURid: Yes [J] Yes: Yes: Yes [24] 28 April 2005.fi Finland: Finland
For example, because the European Union is not a country, it is not formally included in ISO 3166-1, but for practical reasons, the ISO 3166/MA has "reserved the two-letter combination EU for the purpose of identifying the European Union within the framework of ISO 3166-1".
The European Union has concluded free trade agreements (FTAs) [194] and other agreements with a trade component with many countries worldwide and is negotiating with many others. [195] The European Union's services trade surplus rose from $16 billion in 2000 to more than $250 billion in 2018. [196]