When was the European Union founded???

European integration began after World War II, and on 9 May 1950, French Foreign Minister Schumann proposed to West German Chancellor Adenauer that coal and steel production in both countries be placed under the management of a supranational high-level institution and that the institution be opened to other countries, a proposal echoed by Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. On April 18, 1951, the six countries signed the "European Coal and Steel Joint Venture Treaty" in Paris, formally establishing the "European Coal and Steel Community". On March 25, 1957, the six countries signed the "Treaty on the European Economic Community" and the "Treaty on the European Atomic Energy Community" in Rome, collectively referred to as the "Treaty of Rome", and decided to establish the "European Economic Community" and the "European Atomic Energy Community", which officially entered into force on January 1, 1958. On July 1, 1967, the six countries formally merged the "European Economic Community", "European Atomic Energy Community" and "European Coal and Steel Community" and other major institutions such as the Council of Ministers and Committees, collectively known as the "European Community".

On December 9, 1991, the European Community held an extraordinary summit in Maastricht, the Netherlands, and signed the Treaty on European Economic and Monetary Union and the Treaty on European Political Union, commonly known as the Treaty on the European Political Union, which entered into force on November 1, 1993 after being ratified by all member states, and the European Community was officially renamed the European Union.

The EU has enlarged five times in its history: on January 1, 1973, it included the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland; Admission of Greece on 1 January 1981; Spain and Portugal were absorbed on 1 January 1986; On 1 January 1995, the EU was enlarged for the fourth time, with Austria, Sweden and Finland joining the EU; In December 2002, the European Union concluded accession negotiations with Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus, and determined that the above-mentioned 10 countries would formally join the EU on May 1, 2004, and on April 16, 2003, the 10 candidate countries of Central and Eastern Europe signed an accession treaty with the EU in Athens, Greece, legally ensuring that the 10 countries would join the EU on schedule.

In 1992, the Maastricht Treaty was proposed.

In 1993, the European Union was officially established.

On 1 November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force, marking the formal establishment of the European Union.

The European Union, headquartered in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is developed from the European Community and now has 28 member states, namely Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

There are 24 official languages of the European Union. The treaties governing the European Union have been revised several times and currently operate in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty. Politically, all member states are democracies, economically it is the largest economic entity in the world (Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom are members of the eight major industrial countries), and militarily the vast majority of European Union member states are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

On June 23, 2016, the United Kingdom held a referendum to leave the European Union.

November 1, 1993.

On November 1, 1993, the European Union was officially born. The founding members of the European Community are France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

The European Union has a total of 28 member states, with France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg as the founding members, which were formed in 1951. Since then, Denmark, Ireland, the United Kingdom (including Gibraltar) (1973), Greece (1981), Spain and Portugal (1986), Austria, Finland and Sweden (1995) have become members of the European Union.

Joining conditions

As an economic organization, the conditions for joining the EU are not harsh. First of all, in terms of economy, the applicant country must generally establish a market economy system that is open to EU countries. For example, the open part of the EU member states, you have to be open; Second, politically the applicant country must be a democracy.

In general, the applicant country can apply for EU membership as long as it is reformed in accordance with the economic and political requirements of the EU.