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The 2003 European Council summit in Thessaloniki set the integration of the Western Balkans as a priority of EU expansion. Slovenia was the first former Yugoslav country to join the EU in 2004, followed by Croatia in 2013. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia have all been officially granted candidate status.
The largest enlargement of the European Union (EU), in terms of number of states and population, took place on 1 May 2004.. The simultaneous accessions concerned the following countries (sometimes referred to as the "A10" countries [1] [2]): Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
2 May 1992: 15 November 1993: 1 January 1994: 31 January 2020: Former EEA and EU member. EEA covered (with exceptions) Gibraltar and the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia as well as including (for limited purposes) the three Crown Dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey).
The European Commission has warned Slovakia that it will launch immediate legal action if the government pushes ahead with a proposed law requiring NGOs that receive funding from abroad to label ...
It was noteworthy that the Summit referred to "partners" rather than states: this reflects that Kosovo is only partially recognised as a state. [93] As of 2018 [update] , Kosovo was not recognised by fellow Western Balkan applicant Serbia and existing EU members Spain , Slovakia , Cyprus , Romania , and Greece .
The special territories of members of the European Economic Area (EEA) are the 32 special territories of EU member states and EFTA member states which, for historical, geographical, or political reasons, enjoy special status within or outside the European Union and the European Free Trade Association.
The summit meeting of the European Union was notable because heads of states from the EU gathered in Gothenburg, and also because the American President George W. Bush visited Sweden for the first time on the day before the summit meeting. As a reaction to this, protesters from all over the world planned to gather in Gothenburg to demonstrate ...
Slovakia rallied to beat Britain 2-1 and reach its first Billie Jean King Cup final in more than two decades on Tuesday. Viktoria Hruncakova and Tereza Mihalikova defeated Olivia Nicholls and ...