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This enlargement is not explicitly mentioned. Data for Germany in all tables is from current statistics. 3. ^ Greenland left the EC in 1985. 4. ^ Officially the whole of Cyprus lies within the European Union. "In light of Protocol 10 of the Accession Treaty 2003 Cyprus as a whole entered the EU, whereas the acquis is suspended in the northern ...
On 6 February 2018, the European Commission published its expansion plan, [91] which covers the six Western Balkan countries. The plan envisages that all six applicants could achieve accession as members of the European Union after 2025.
The European Parliament is responsible for managing the budget allocated to this policy under the pre-accession instruments, which comprised 9 billion euros over the period 2007-2017, and would rise to 1.07 billion euros for 2018 alone for the Western Balkans region, and is set to increase further year by year until 2020. [1]
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 ...
Faced with the Russian aggression against Ukraine and fears of Moscow’s increasing influence in parts of the Balkans, the European Union should make a “bold move” and accept new members by ...
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.
On 6 July 2017, the European Parliament accepted the call for the suspension of full membership negotiations between the EU and Turkey, [79] and a repeat of the exact same vote ended with the same result in March 2019 [80] and May 2021. [81]
Enlargement of the Union is also contingent upon the consent of all existing members and the candidate's adoption of the existing body of EU law, known as the acquis communautaire. The United Kingdom, which had acceded to the EU's predecessor in 1973, ceased to be an EU member state on 31 January 2020, in a political process known as Brexit.