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Click on the dates below to trace the shifts in Europe's political geography
By 1994, most of the former Communist countries of Central Europe have applied to join the European Union.
A decade later eight of them formally accede, along with Cyprus and Malta.
After a century which saw the collapse of empires and the fragmentation of Europe into dozens of small states, a new alliance is again being forged.
In terms of population, the EU is now the biggest single market in the world.
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