Member state of the European Union

The European Union ( EU) has existed since 1 July 2013 from 28 Member States ( EU Member States).

  • 3.1 Overseas Territories of Member States that belong entirely to the EU
  • 3.2 belong to areas that joined the EU but not of the Customs Union
  • 3.3 Associated Areas
  • 3.4 Areas that do not belong to the EU
  • 3.5 European micro-states

The EU Member States

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List of Member States

As a designation for statistical dimensions are officially:

  • EEC -6: up to and including 1972 ( see European Economic Community )
  • EC -9: 1980 or
  • EC -10: up to and including 1985
  • EC -12: up to and including 1994 ( see European Communities )
  • EU -15: up to and including April 2004
  • EU-25: up to and including 2006
  • EU-27: up to and including June 2013
  • EU-28: the European Union today, since July 1, 2013

By sorting the list by year of accession to the individual countries of statistical groups can be read; more detail see EU enlargement.

Candidate

Special areas

Some areas that belong to EU countries or managed by them, have a special legal status to the European Union. In many cases it involves overseas and former colonial territories.

Overseas territories of Member States that belong entirely to the EU

Some EU Member States have overseas territories that are fully integrated into the state structure, however, and also towards the EU take any special role. You have the same status as other regions on the continent. These are:

  • Portuguese autonomous regions: Azores ( North Atlantic )
  • Madeira ( North Atlantic )
  • Spanish autonomous region: Canary Islands ( Atlantic)

Areas belonging to the EU but not of the Customs Union

Some areas are EU Member States and are also part of the EU, but do not participate in the internal market and also include the customs territory of the EU:

  • The German communities of Helgoland and Büsingen
  • The French overseas departments: French Guiana (South America)
  • Guadeloupe ( Caribbean)
  • Martinique ( Caribbean)
  • Mayotte (Indian Ocean)
  • Reunion Island (Indian Ocean)

Associated areas

Some overseas territories of EU Member States as overseas countries and territories referred to in 4 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union associated with this. In these countries and territories, only individual aspects of European law shall apply.

  • British areas: Anguilla ( Caribbean)
  • Bermuda ( North Atlantic )
  • British Antarctic Territory
  • British Virgin Islands ( Caribbean)
  • British Indian Ocean Territory
  • Falkland Islands ( South Atlantic )
  • Cayman Islands ( Caribbean)
  • Montserrat ( Caribbean)
  • Pitcairn Islands ( Pacific)
  • St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha ( South Atlantic )
  • South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( South Atlantic )
  • Turks and Caicos Islands ( Atlantic)
  • French territories: French Polynesia ( Pacific)
  • French Southern and Antarctic Lands (Indian Ocean)
  • New Caledonia ( Pacific)
  • Saint- Barthélemy ( Caribbean)
  • Saint- Pierre and Miquelon ( North Atlantic )
  • Wallis and Futuna ( Pacific)
  • Dutch areas: Aruba ( Caribbean)
  • Curacao ( Caribbean)
  • Sint Maarten ( Caribbean)
  • Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba ( Caribbean)
  • Danish autonomous region: Greenland ( North Atlantic, 1985 resigned from the EC)

Areas which do not belong to the EU

Some other areas are represented foreign policy of EU Member States, but not part of the territory of the EU:

  • Danish autonomous region: Faroe Islands ( North Atlantic, never part of the EC)

European micro-states

The European micro-states, the EU has special and intense relationships. Each small state is fully independent, but is in customs and monetary union with a neighboring country, which itself has close relationship with the EU, either through its own membership or through bilateral agreements. As a result, the tiny country has also benefited from the customs regulations of the EU. Except Liechtenstein use the mini-states since 2002 the euro as their currency unit; Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City have their own coins. However, these states are not members of the EU:

This often also attributed to the European mini-states, Malta is a full member of the EU since 2004. This is also very small Luxembourg is a founding member of the EU.

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