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The European Union has made a commitment to accept the countries of the Western Balkans as full EU members. The 2003 European Council summit in Thessaloniki set the integration of the Western Balkans as a priority of EU expansion.
The territories of the member states of the European Union (European Communities pre-1993), animated in order of accession. Territories outside Europe and its immediate surroundings are not shown. 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.
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 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.
The enlargement of the eurozone is an ongoing process within the European Union (EU).All member states of the European Union, except Denmark which negotiated an opt-out from the provisions, are obliged to adopt the euro as their sole currency once they meet the criteria, which include: complying with the debt and deficit criteria outlined by the Stability and Growth Pact, keeping inflation and ...
European Union and EAEC: 13 November 2014 European Parliament: 535 94 44 19 April 2016 (EAEC) 23 May 2016 (EU) [90] Council of the European Union Finland: 10 March 2015 Parliament: Approved 6 May 2015 [91] 24 April 2015 Presidential Assent: Granted [92] France: 3 March 2015 Senate: Approved 3 July 2015 [93] 16 April 2015 National Assembly ...
The Association Agreement, much of which provisionally came into force in September, has been fully ratified by Georgia and all EU member states. [33] On 18 December 2014 the European Parliament approved the Association Agreement. Members backed the treaty by 490 votes in favour to 76 against, with 57 abstentions. [34]
The most recent enlargement of the European Union saw Croatia become the European Union's 28th member state on 1 July 2013. The country applied for EU membership in 2003, and the European Commission recommended making it an official candidate in early 2004.