List of 25 member States of the European Union

List of 25 member States of the European Union: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, Britain, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

On June 65438+1 October1day, 2007, Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union. 2065438+July 2003 1 day, Croatia joined the European Union. Therefore, the EU actually has 28 member states.

20 17 On March 28th, London, England, pedestrians passed the British Parliament Building. After more than nine months of debate and brewing, the British government is scheduled to announce the start of the Brexit process on the 29th of this month, and Britain's "Brexit" will take a landmark step.

20 17 12.8 news, Britain and the European union reached a historic agreement on Britain's withdrawal from the European union, thus paving the way for trade negotiations. On June 26th, 20 18, Queen Elizabeth II approved the bill of Britain's leaving the European Union into law, allowing Britain to leave the European Union.

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19911February, the European Maastricht Summit adopted the Treaty of European Union, commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty.

1 993165438+10/,the Maastricht treaty came into effect, the EU was formally established, and the three major European entities merged into the EU, which marked the transformation of the EU from an economic entity to an economic and political entity. At the same time, the development of foreign and security policies and

1On March 30th, 994, the accession negotiations of Austria, Sweden, Finland and Norway were completed. Every country held a referendum, and all countries except Norway passed the proposal to join the European Union.

1994 12 from February 9 to 10, the leaders of the EU12 and Austria, Sweden and Finland who are about to join the EU reached an agreement in Essen, Germany on improving the EU mechanism, promoting economic growth and the EU's eastward expansion.

1 99565438+1October1,Sweden, Finland and Austria formally joined the European Union, and the number of EU member States expanded to 15.

On February 6, 2000, the EU began formal accession negotiations with the second batch of six candidate countries: Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Malta.

200 1 1 1, Greece officially became the 12 member of the euro zone.

On June 8th, 2002,165438+1October 65438, the EU 15 foreign ministers' meeting decided to invite Cyprus, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia to join the EU.

On April 16, 2003, in Athens, Greece, the EU signed accession agreements with 10 candidate countries that have completed accession negotiations, including the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

On May 1 2004, Malta, Cyprus, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania formally joined the European Union.

On April 25th, 2005, the leaders of Bulgaria and Romania signed the EU accession treaty in Luxembourg, which laid the foundation for the two countries to formally join the EU on June 5th, 2007.

On July 20 13 1 day, Croatia officially became the 28th member of the European Union.

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