Overview[]
There are currently 27 EU Member States. From an original membership of six states, there have been six successive enlargements, the largest occurring on May 1, 2004, when 10 new Member States joined. The EU is currently composed of 20 republics, 6 kingdoms and 1 grand duchy. Negotiations are currently under way with a number of other states.
The current Member States are:
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden