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The successive enlargement of the EU

It has been a long journey to reach the current number of members states:

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  • 1952: Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
  • 1973: Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
  • 1981: Greece.
  • 1986: Spain and Portugal.
  • 1995: Austria, Finland and Sweden.
  • 2004: Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and the Czech Republic.
  • 2007: Bulgaria and Romania.
  • Candidate countries: Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey.
Map of Europe showing the successive enlargements to the European Union
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