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The Council of Europe lists 6 founding fathers as builders of Europe, including the Briton Ernest Bevin. [1] The media outlet Deutsche Welle presented a different constellation, it listed Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Winston Churchill, Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet and Paul-Henri Spaak as the 5 founding fathers of the EU. [2]
The European Union is a geo-political entity, created in 1993, covering a large portion of the European continent. It is founded upon numerous treaties and has undergone expansions and secessions that have taken it from six member states to 27, a majority of the states in Europe. Since the beginning of the institutionalised modern European ...
Website. europa.eu. The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. [8][9] 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.
History of theEuropean Union. The Inner Six (also known as the Six or the Six founders) refers to the six founding member states of the European Union, namely Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. They were the original members of the European Communities, which were later succeeded by the European Union.
2007 – Accession of Bulgaria and Romania. 2009 – Lisbon Treaty abolishes the three pillars of the European Union. 2013 – Accession of Croatia. 2016 – UK holds a Membership Referendum and votes to leave the European Union. 2017 – Negotiations between UK and the EU officially started in June 2017.
Founders of the European Union. Founders of the European Union may refer to: Founding fathers of the European Union. Founding members of the European Union. Category: Disambiguation pages.
Robert Schuman, circa 1949. Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (French: [ʁɔbɛʁ ʃuman]; 29 June 1886 – 4 September 1963) was a Luxembourg -born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic (Popular Republican Movement) political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign ...
Member state of the European Union. 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 ...