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Summary

Founding and enlarging the EU. Image made using the freely licenced maps at commons: EU-6, EU-9, EU-10, EU-12, EU-15, EU-25, EU-27

Enlargements

  • 1952– 58 – founding members: Belgium, France (with Algeria), Italy, Luxembourg, West Germany*, Netherlands (*in 1990 reunified with former East Germany, Algeria was an integral part of France until 1962)
  • 1962 - Algeria gains independence from France and leaves.
  • 1973 – First Enlargement: Denmark (with Greenland but without Faroe Islands) Ireland, United Kingdom
  • 1981 – Second "southern (part I)" Enlargement: Greece
  • 1985 - Greenland leaves
  • 1986 – Third "southern (part II)" Enlargement: Portugal, Spain
  • 1995 - Fourth Enlargement: Austria, "northern (in part)": Finland, Sweden
  • 2004 – Fifth "eastern (part I)" Enlargement: Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
  • 2007 – Fifth "eastern (part II)" Enlargement: Bulgaria, Romania

(note: the very top left corner is part of Greenland)

Licensing

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