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The Copenhagen criteria are the rules that define whether a country is eligible to join the European Union. The criteria require that a state has the institutions to preserve democratic governance and human rights , has a functioning market economy , and accepts the obligations and intent 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 certain aspects of government.
Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 and its accession treaty has since obliged it to adopt the euro once the country is found to comply with all the convergence criteria. However, one of the requirements for eurozone membership is two years' membership of ERM II , and Sweden has chosen not to join this mechanism, which would peg the ...
Sweden (application submitted in July 1991) - 52.8% in favour (13 November 1994); Norway (application submitted in December 1992) - 47.8% in favour (28 November 1994) Austria, Finland and Sweden became EU members on 1 January 1995. Sweden held its elections to the European Parliament for its MEPs later that year on 17 September. The following ...
According to the EU treaties, membership of the European Union is open to "any European State which respects the values referred to in Article 2 and is committed to promoting them" (TEU Article 49). Those Article 2 values are "respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the ...
The council, as it is now simply called [99] (also called the Council of the European Union [100] and the "Council of Ministers", its former title), [101] forms one half of the EU's legislature. It consists of a representative from each member state's government and meets in different compositions depending on the policy area being addressed .
A non-binding referendum on membership for the European Union was held in Sweden on 13 November 1994. [1] 53% of voters voted in favour, with a turnout of 83%.[1]Among the political parties, the Social Democrats , the Center Party , the Christian Democrats , the Moderates and the People's Party officially supported membership, while the Left Party and the Green Party were opposed.
When joining the EU, Finland stopped being a neutral state. While staying militarily non-aligned, it aligned politically, economically and culturally with Western Europe. Cultural connections with Nordic and Western European countries had already been emphasised in the post-war period, but the political and economic integration of Finland only ...