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| Capital (and largest city) |
Brussels, Stockholm, and Budapest | ||||
| Language | Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Greenlandic, Slovakian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Belarusian, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Irish, German, British English, Dutch, other native languages | ||||
| President of the Council | Inna Bohoslovska | ||||
| President of the Commission | Karin Enström | ||||
The European Union is an organisation.
History[]
The European Union was founded by the United Kingdom, Italy, Benelux, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland in 1951. Since then, it slowly grew to include more nations. After the fall of the Soviet Union, more nations joined.
Eventually the Euro was created in 1994, and today all nations, except for the United Kingdom and Greece use the Euro.
Members[]
- United Kingdom (1951, founder)
- Italy (1951, founder)
- Benelux (1951, founder)
- Norway (1951, founder)
- Sweden (1951, founder)
- Denmark (1951, founder)
- Finland (1951, founder)
- Austria (1958)
- Germany (1958)
- Portugal (1960)
- Spain (1967)
- Greece (1975)
- Ukraine (1992)
- Yugoslavia (1992)
- Albania (1992)
- Poland (1992)
- Czechoslovakia (1992)
- Hungary (1996)
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