The European Union, 9b

•Austria is a country in&nbsp;Central Europe.&nbsp;Its&nbsp;capital, largest city and one of nine states is&nbsp;Vienna. Austria has an area of around 83,000&nbsp;km2 and a population of nearly 9 million people. It is bordered by the&nbsp;Czech Republic&nbsp;and&nbsp;Germany&nbsp;to the north,&nbsp;Hungary&nbsp;and&nbsp;Slovakia&nbsp;to the east,&nbsp;Slovenia&nbsp;and&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;to the south, and&nbsp;Switzerland&nbsp;and&nbsp;Liechtenstein&nbsp;to the west. It uses the euro and the majority of the population speaks local&nbsp;Bavarian dialects&nbsp;of the German language. It is a member of the EU since 1 January 1999.

•Malta&nbsp;is a Southern European&nbsp;island country in the&nbsp;Mediterranean Sea. It lies 80&nbsp;km south of&nbsp;Italy, 284&nbsp;km east of&nbsp;Tunisia,&nbsp;and 333&nbsp;km north of&nbsp;Libya.&nbsp;With a population of about 475,000 people&nbsp;over an area of 316&nbsp;km2,&nbsp;Malta is the&nbsp;world's tenth smallest&nbsp;and&nbsp;fifth most densely populated&nbsp;country. Its capital is&nbsp;Valletta, which is the smallest national capital in the&nbsp;European Union&nbsp;by area at 0.8&nbsp;km.2&nbsp;It has been a part of the EU since 1 May 2004.

•EU member country since 1 July 2013. •The Republic of Croatia is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the southeast, sharing a maritime border with Italy. Its capital, Zagreb, forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. •Population of 4.28&nbsp;million, most of whom are Roman Catholics.

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 United Kingdom

Countries in brief

•EU member country since 1 January 1958 •January 2018 estimate 1,041,300 •Luxembourg is a small landlocked country in western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south. Its capital, Luxembourg City, together with Brussels and Strasbourg, is one of the three official capitals of the European Union and the seat of the European Court of Justice, the highest judicial authority in the EU.&nbsp;

•Portugal&nbsp;is a country located mostly on the&nbsp;Iberian Peninsula&nbsp;in&nbsp;southwestern Europe. It is bordered to the west and south by the&nbsp;Atlantic Ocean&nbsp;and to the north and east by&nbsp;Spain. It has an area of around 92,000&nbsp;km2 and a population of around 10,200,000 people. Its capital city is Lisbon. It has been a EU member since 1 January 1986.

•The&nbsp;Czech Republic&nbsp;is a&nbsp;landlocked&nbsp;country&nbsp;in&nbsp;Central Europe&nbsp;bordered by&nbsp;Germany&nbsp;to the west,&nbsp;Austria&nbsp;to the south,&nbsp;Slovakia&nbsp;to the east and&nbsp;Poland&nbsp;to the northeast. The Czech Republic covers an area of around 78,000 square kilometres. It has a population of around 10.6&nbsp;million people; its capital and largest city is&nbsp;Prague. The Czech Republic is a member of the&nbsp;EU since 1 May 2004.

•Finland&nbsp;is a&nbsp;country&nbsp;in&nbsp;Northern Europe&nbsp;bordering the&nbsp;Baltic Sea,&nbsp;Gulf of Bothnia, and&nbsp;Gulf of Finland,&nbsp;Sweden&nbsp;to the northwest, and&nbsp;Russia&nbsp;to the east. The capital and largest city is&nbsp;Helsinki. Finland's population is 5.52 million and it has an area of around 338,000&nbsp;km2. The majority of people speak Finnish and Swedish. It is a part from the EU since 1 January 1995.

•Its capital city is Brussels and the largest city is London. The motto of the EU is “United in Diversity” and its anthem is the “Ode to Joy”. The EU has 24 official languages and the currency Euro, which is used by 19 of the countries.

•Hungary&nbsp;s a country in&nbsp;Central Europe. Spanning 93,030 square kilometres it borders&nbsp;Slovakia&nbsp;to the north,&nbsp;Ukraine&nbsp;to the northeast,&nbsp;Austria&nbsp;to the northwest,&nbsp;Romania&nbsp;to the east,&nbsp;Serbia&nbsp;to the south,&nbsp;Croatia&nbsp;to the southwest, and&nbsp;Slovenia&nbsp;to the west.&nbsp;With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a&nbsp;medium-sized member state&nbsp;of the&nbsp;European Union.&nbsp;The&nbsp;official language&nbsp;is&nbsp;Hungarian.&nbsp;Hungary's capital and its&nbsp;largest city and metropolis&nbsp;is&nbsp;Budapest. Its has been a part of the EU since 1 May 2004.

•The European portion of the Netherlands consists of twelve separate provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. The official language is Dutch, but a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian. It has a population of around 17,300,000. Its capital city is Amsterdam. •EU member country: since 1 January 1958

•Lithuania&nbsp;is a country in the&nbsp;Baltic region&nbsp;of&nbsp;Europeand it is considered to be one of the&nbsp;Baltic states.&nbsp;It is situated along the southeastern shore of the&nbsp;Baltic Sea, to the east of&nbsp;Sweden&nbsp;and&nbsp;Denmark. Lithuania has an estimated population of 2.8 million people, and its capital and largest city is&nbsp;Vilnius. The official language,&nbsp;Lithuanian, along with&nbsp;Latvian, is one of only two living languages in the&nbsp;Baltic branch&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Indo-European&nbsp;language family. It has been a part of the EU since 1 May 2004.

•The&nbsp;United Kingdom, officially the&nbsp;United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland&nbsp;is a country&nbsp;lying off the north-western coast of the&nbsp;European mainland. The United Kingdom is surrounded by the&nbsp;Atlantic Ocean, with the&nbsp;North Sea&nbsp;to the east, the&nbsp;English Channel&nbsp;to the south and the&nbsp;Celtic Sea&nbsp;to the south-west. With an area of 242,000 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the&nbsp;78th-largest country in the world. It is also the&nbsp;22nd-most populous country, with an estimated 66 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is London. It has been a member of the EU since 1 January 1973.

•Italy&nbsp;is a country in&nbsp;Southern&nbsp;and&nbsp;Western Europe. Located in the middle of the&nbsp;Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares&nbsp;open land borders&nbsp;with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. Italy covers an area of around 301,000&nbsp;km2. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the&nbsp;fourth-most populous EU member state. Its capital and largest city is Rome. It has been a EU member country since since 1 January 1958.

•Bulgaria is a country in&nbsp;Southeast Europe. It is bordered by&nbsp;Romania&nbsp;to the north,&nbsp;Serbia&nbsp;and&nbsp;North Macedonia&nbsp;to the west,&nbsp;Greece&nbsp;and&nbsp;Turkey&nbsp;to the south, and the&nbsp;Black Sea&nbsp;to the east. The capital and largest city is&nbsp;Sofia. It has a territory of around 110,000 square kilometres and a population of around 7 000 000 people. The curency is the Bulgarian lev. Bulgaria joined the EU since 1 January 2007.

•Romania is a country located at the crossroads of&nbsp;Central,&nbsp;Eastern, and&nbsp;Southeastern Europe. With a total area of 238,000 square kilometres&nbsp;Romania is the&nbsp;12th largest country&nbsp;and also the&nbsp;7th most populous&nbsp;member state of the&nbsp;European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is&nbsp;Bucharest. It has been a member of the EU since 1 January 2007.

&nbsp;&nbsp;Cyprus is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt, and southeast of Greece. Capital and largest city – Nicosia. The official languages are Turkish and Greek and it has an area of around 9,000 square meters. The country is a part of the EU since 1 May 2004.

•France is a country in&nbsp;Western Europe&nbsp;and&nbsp;several overseas regions and territories.&nbsp;It is bordered by&nbsp;Belgium,&nbsp;Luxembourg&nbsp;and&nbsp;Germany&nbsp;to the northeast,&nbsp;Switzerland&nbsp;and&nbsp;Italy to the east, and&nbsp;Andorra and&nbsp;Spain to the south. The country has an area of around 643,000 square kilometres and a total population of 67.3 million.&nbsp;its&nbsp;capital&nbsp;city is&nbsp;Paris, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. France is a part of the EU since 1 January 1958.

•Poland , officially the Republic of Poland, is a country located in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,000 square kilometeres. It has a population of around 38,400,000 and its capital city is Warsaw. •EU member country since 1 May 2004

European Parliament

•The European Parliament makes laws and represents citizens of countries-members. There are 751 members of the Parliament, who are being elected by citizens every 5 years.

The European Commission promotes the general interest of the European Union. There is a team of Commissioners, 1 from each EU country.

Ode to Joy - Anthem of European Union (English/German lyrics)

<a href="https://europa.eu/european-union/index_bg">European Union website</a>

•Sweden is a&nbsp;Scandinavian&nbsp;Nordic country&nbsp;in&nbsp;Northern Europe. At 450,000 square kilometres, Sweden is the largest country in&nbsp;Northern Europe, the third-largest country in the&nbsp;European Union&nbsp;by area. Sweden has a total population of 10.2&nbsp;million with a low population density. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has been a part of the EU&nbsp;since 1 January 1995.

•The&nbsp;European Union&nbsp;(EU) is a&nbsp;political&nbsp;and&nbsp;economic union&nbsp;of&nbsp;28 member states that are located primarily in&nbsp;Europe. It has an area of 4,475,757&nbsp;km2 and an estimated population of about 513 million. It was established in 1950 with the goal of putting a stop to violent wars. The first countries to become members were Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands. Since then, 22 more countries have joined and now the EU has 28 countries with membership.

•Germany is a country in&nbsp;Central&nbsp;and&nbsp;Western Europe, lying between the&nbsp;Baltic&nbsp;and&nbsp;North&nbsp;Seas to the north, and the&nbsp;Alps&nbsp;to the south. Germany includes 16&nbsp;constituent states, covers an area of 357,000 square kilometres. With 83 million inhabitants, it is the second most populous state of&nbsp;Europe, the most populous state lying entirely in Europe, as well as the most populous&nbsp;member state&nbsp;of the&nbsp;European Union. Its&nbsp;capital&nbsp;and&nbsp;largest&nbsp;metropolis is&nbsp;Berlin. Germany is a part of the EU since 1 January 1999.

The Council of the European Union

It discusses main issues and decides on new laws. The members are government ministers from every EU country.

•Spain&nbsp;is a country mostly located in&nbsp;Europe. Its territory also includes two&nbsp;archipelagoes: the&nbsp;Canary Islands&nbsp;off the coast of Africa, and the&nbsp;Balearic Islands&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Mediterranean Sea. With an area of 505,000&nbsp;km2, Spain is the largest country in Southern Europe, the second largest country in Western Europe and the European Union. By population, Spain is the&nbsp;sixth&nbsp;largest in Europe and the&nbsp;fifth&nbsp;in the European Union. Spain's capital and largest city is&nbsp;Madrid. It has been a EU member since 1 January 1986.

•Greece&nbsp;is a country located in&nbsp;Southern&nbsp;and&nbsp;Southeast Europe, with a population of approximately 11 million.&nbsp;Athens&nbsp;is the nation's capital and largest city. Greece is located on the southern tip of the&nbsp;Balkans, it shares land borders with&nbsp;Albania&nbsp;to the northwest,&nbsp;North Macedonia&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bulgaria&nbsp;to the north, and&nbsp;Turkey&nbsp;to the northeast. It has an area of around 132,000&nbsp;km2. Greece is a part of the EU since 1 January 1981.

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•Slovenia&nbsp;is a&nbsp;country&nbsp;located in southern&nbsp;Central Europe.&nbsp;It is bordered by&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;to the west,&nbsp;Austria&nbsp;to the north,&nbsp;Hungary to the northeast,&nbsp;Croatia&nbsp;to the southeast, and the&nbsp;Adriatic Sea&nbsp;to the southwest.&nbsp;It covers around 20,000 square kilometers and has a population of 2 million. Slovenia is a&nbsp;parliamentary republic.&nbsp;The capital and largest city is&nbsp;Ljubljana. It has been a member of the EU.

•Estonia&nbsp;is a country in&nbsp;Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north&nbsp;with&nbsp;Finland, to the west by the&nbsp;Baltic Sea&nbsp;with&nbsp;Sweden&nbsp;on the other side, to the south by&nbsp;Latvia, and to the east by&nbsp;Lake Peipus&nbsp;and&nbsp;Russia.&nbsp;The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands in the Baltic Sea,&nbsp;covering a total area of around 45,000&nbsp;km2. Its capital city is Tallin and it has a population of around 1,300,000 people. Estonia is a part of the EU since 1 May 2004.

•EU member country since 1 May 2004 •Population estimate 1,925,800 •It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia has 1,957,200 inhabitants and a territory of 64,589&nbsp;km2. Its capital and largest city is Riga.

•Belgium is a country in&nbsp;Western Europe. It is bordered by the&nbsp;Netherlands&nbsp;to the north,&nbsp;Germany to the east,&nbsp;Luxembourg&nbsp;to the southeast,&nbsp;France&nbsp;to the southwest, and the&nbsp;North Sea&nbsp;to the northwest. It covers an area of around 30,000 square kilometres and has a population of more than 11.4 million. The capital and largest city is&nbsp;Brussels. The majority of the people speak Dutch, French and German and the country uses the euro. It is a member of the EU since 1 January 1958.

•Slovakia&nbsp;is a&nbsp;landlocked country&nbsp;in&nbsp;Central Europe.&nbsp;It is bordered by&nbsp;Poland to the north,&nbsp;Ukraine to the east,&nbsp;Hungary&nbsp;to the south,&nbsp;Austria&nbsp;to the west, and the&nbsp;Czech Republic&nbsp;to the northwest. Slovakia's territory spans about 49,000 square kilometres and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5.4 million and consists mostly of&nbsp;Slovaks. The capital and largest city is&nbsp;Bratislava and the&nbsp;official language&nbsp;is&nbsp;Slovak. It has been a part of the EU since 1 May 2004.

•Ireland is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. •Population 6,572,728 •EU member country since 1 January 1973

•Denmark&nbsp;&nbsp;is a&nbsp;Nordic country&nbsp;southwest of&nbsp;Sweden, south of&nbsp;Norway&nbsp;and is also bordered to the south by&nbsp;Germany. Its capital city is Kopenhagen and people there speak mostly Danish, Greenlandic and German. Denmark has a total area of around 42,000&nbsp;km2&nbsp;and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,200,000&nbsp;km2 and a population of 5.8 million. It is a part of the EU since 1 January 1973.

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