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January 1 - Czech Republic assumes the Presidency for the first time. [1]January 1 - Slovakia adopts the euro and becomes the 16th member of the Eurozone. [2] [3]January 1 - Deadline by which goods in all member states of the European Union must be sold in metric units (this has already been completed everywhere, except in the United Kingdom).
Kosovo (the independence of which is not recognised by five EU member states) formally submitted its application for membership in 2022 and is considered a potential candidate by the European Union. Due to multiple factors, talks with Turkey are at an effective standstill since December 2016.
The euro area crisis, often also referred to as the eurozone crisis, European debt crisis or European sovereign debt crisis, was a multi-year debt and financial crisis that took place in the European Union (EU) from 2009 until the mid to late 2010s.
The 2009 European Parliament election was held in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) between 4 and 7 June 2009. [1] A total of 736 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent some 500 million [ 2 ] Europeans, making these the biggest trans-national elections in history.
Density of Population in the European Union 2014. Lists of member states of the European Union provide different types of information about each of the states in the European Union. They include lists about politics, demographics and economics.
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) 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 ...
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. [9] [10] 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.