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Member States
The European Union has 27 Member States. These are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
EU countries and the years in which they joined
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1952
Belgium
France
Italy
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The Netherlands
West Germany
1973
Denmark
Ireland
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1981
Greece
1986
Portugal
Spain
1990
East Germany
1995
Finland
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Austria
2004
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Poland
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Hungary
2007
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