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    The European Union has expanded from its original 12 member states through a series of enlargements, growing to include 28 member states total as of 2013. The EU was first established in 1993 with Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom as founding members. It has since expanded to include countries from Central and Eastern Europe as well as Cyprus, Malta, and Croatia through accessions in 1995, 2004, 2007, and 2013.

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    The European Union has expanded from its original 12 member states through a series of enlargements, growing to include 28 member states total as of 2013. The EU was first established in 1993 with Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom as founding members. It has since expanded to include countries from Central and Eastern Europe as well as Cyprus, Malta, and Croatia through accessions in 1995, 2004, 2007, and 2013.

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    The European Union (EU) was established on 1 November 1993 with 12 Member States.

    Their
    number has grown to the present 28 through a series of enlargements:

    EU-12 (1 November 1993 - 31 December 1994):


    Belgium (BE), Denmark (DK), France (FR), Germany (DE), Greece (EL), Ireland (IE), Italy
    (IT), Luxembourg (LU), Netherlands (NL), Portugal (PT), Spain (ES) and United Kingdom
    (UK)

    EU-15 (1 January 1995 - 30 April 2004):


    EU-12 + Austria (AT), Finland (FI) and Sweden (SE)

    EU-25 (1 May 2004 - 31 December 2006):

    EU-15 + Cyprus (CY), Czech Republic (CZ), Estonia (EE), Hungary (HU), Latvia (LV),
    Lithuania (LT), Malta (MT), Poland (PL), Slovakia (SK) and Slovenia (SI)

    EU-27 (1 January 2007 - 30 June 2013):

    EU-25 + Bulgaria (BG) and Romania (RO)

    EU-28 (from 1 July 2013):

    EU-27 + Croatia (HR)


    The 6 founding Member States of the EU's predecessor, the European
    Communities, established by the 1957 Treaties of Rome, were Belgium, France,
    Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany (West
    Germany). In 1973 Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom joined, enlarging
    the Communities to 9 Member States. The accession of Greece in 1981 brought
    their number up to 10 and it grew to 12 in 1986 when Spain and Portugal joined.
    By the 1990 German reunification the Communities also came to include the
    1
    former German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

    Structure of the E.U. Countries


    http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary:EU_enlargements accessed on
    23.11.2014

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