Who's in the EU?

Already members

These are the 27 countries in the EU with the dates when they joined.

• Belgium 1957
• France 1957
• Netherlands 1957
• Germany 1957
• Italy 1957
• Luxembourg 1957
• Denmark 1973
• Ireland 1973
• UK 1973
• Greece 1981
• Portugal 1986
• Spain 1986
• Austria 1995
• Finland 1995
• Sweden 1995
• Hungary 2004
• Poland 2004
• Czech Republic 2004
• Slovak Republic 2004
• Slovenia 2004
• Estonia 2004
• Latvia 2004
• Lithuania 2004
• Malta 2004
• Cyprus 2004
• Bulgaria 2007
• Romania 2007

In January 2007, the European Union had 494 million citizens.