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Past enlargement since the foundation of the European Union as the European Economic Community by the Inner Six states in 1958 [7] brought total membership of the EU to twenty-eight, although as a result of the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, the current number of EU member states is twenty-seven.
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. To join the EU, a state needs to fulfil economic and political conditions called the Copenhagen criteria (named after the Copenhagen summit in June 1993), which require a stable democratic government that ...
Article 49 (formerly Article O) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) [4] or Maastricht Treaty states that any European country that respects the principles of the EU may apply to join. Countries' classification as European is "subject to political assessment" [ 5 ] by the Commission and, more importantly, the European Council .
Unanimity is already difficult among the 27 EU members and if eight candidate countries join, unanimity among 35 would be even harder. Factbox-Main changes to EU set-up needed for acceptance of ...
European Union and EAEC: 13 November 2014 European Parliament: 535 94 44 19 April 2016 (EAEC) 23 May 2016 (EU) [84] Council of the European Union Finland: 10 March 2015 Parliament: Approved 6 May 2015 [85] 24 April 2015 Presidential Assent: Granted [86] France: 3 March 2015 Senate: Approved 3 July 2015 [87] 16 April 2015 National Assembly ...
(Reuters) -Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose ...
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.
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday his country was unlikely to enter the European Union in 2028, a date targeted by some other western Balkan countries hoping to join the bloc.