The Enlargement of the Union

By luumejias14

  • Original signatories of the 1957 Treaty of Rome.

    Belgium
    France
    Germany
    Italy
    Luxembourg
    Netherlands

  • Incorporation of new countries

    Denmark
    Ireland
    United Kingdom

  • Greece’s accession consolidated democracy in the country.

    Greece

  • This enlargement consolidated democracy in Portugal and Spain.

    Portugal
    Spain

  • Incorporation of new countries

    Austria
    Finland
    Sweden

  • Aimed at reuniting the continent after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, this enlargement was launched by the European Council meeting of December 1997. Negotiations were conducted separately with each country.

    Cyprus
    Czech Republic
    Estonia
    Hungary
    Latvia
    Lithuania
    Malta
    Poland
    Slovakia
    Slovenia

  • Reform in Bulgaria and Romania

    Bulgaria
    Romania

  • The accession negotiations with Croatia were subject to the stricter conditionality instituted in December 2006 by the European Council’s ‘renewed consensus on enlargement’.

    Croatia

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