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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
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1973
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1981
Greece
1986
Portugal
Spain
1990
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1995
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2004
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Hungary
2007
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