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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.
Four territories of EU member states have withdrawn: French Algeria (in 1962, upon independence), [5] Greenland (in 1985, following a referendum), [6] Saint Pierre and Miquelon (also in 1985, unilaterally) [7] and Saint Barthélemy (in 2012), [8] the latter three becoming Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union.
In 2004, India and European Union became "Strategic Partners". A Joint Action Plan was agreed upon in 2005 and updated in 2008. India-EU Joint Statements was published in 2009 and 2012 following the India-European Union Summits. [7] EU-India relationship [8] has been qualified as high on rhetoric [9] and low on substance. [10] [11] [12]
Cyprus is, along with Malta, also a European Union member state. Dominica: 3 November 1978 Americas: Caribbean: 73,040 Unitary Westminster republic Dominica has always been a republic since independence. The last Governor of Dominica, Sir Louis Cools-Lartigue was installed as the first President of Dominica as an interim measure. Eswatini: 6 ...
2017 – Start of Brexit: On 29 March 2017, the Government of the United Kingdom invoked Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. The UK was due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 at 11 p.m. GMT, when the period for negotiating a withdrawal agreement was set to end
In 1992 Norway again applied to join, but voters again rejected the proposal in a 1994 referendum. Greenland later withdrew from the EC on 1 January 1985 after a referendum in 1982 . This was followed by the United Kingdom holding a referendum in 2016 on membership which resulted in the United Kingdom voting to leave the EU .
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 ...
Some member states of the EU required Bulgarians and Romanians to acquire a permit to work, whilst members of all other old member states did not require one. In the Treaty of Accession 2005, there was a clause about a transition period so each old EU member state could impose such 2+3+2 transitional periods. Restrictions were planned to remain ...