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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:

1952	Belgium France Italy Luxembourg The Netherlands West Germany
1973	Denmark Ireland UK
1981	Greece
1986	Portugal Spain
1990	East Germany
1995	Finland Sweden Austria
2004	Cyprus Estonia Latvia Lithuania Malta Poland Slovenia Slovakia Czech Republic Hungary
2007	Bulgaria Romania

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