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The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about 1/4 of the eurozone's annual gross domestic product.
European integration is the process of political, legal, social, regional and economic integration of states wholly or partially in Europe, or nearby.European integration has primarily but not exclusively come about through the European Union and its policies, and can include cultural assimilation and centralisation.
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The Neanderthal (named after its initial site of discovery, the Neandertal valley) emerges in Europe. [4] ~45,000 BP Homo sapiens first appears in Europe (sometimes called EEMH or Cro-Magnon). [5] [6] [7] 35,000–45,000 BP The Venus of Hohle Fels is made. [8] >32,000 BP The Löwenmensch figurine is made. [9] ~23,000 BP The Venus of Willendorf ...
The European Union since 7 October 2023, [97] has had to face the resurgence of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, in particular the attack by Hamas in Israel that detonated a conflict first in the Gaza Strip, and then gradually wider to include Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen.
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 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 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.