Six countries founded the European Economic Community;- Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, West Germany, France and Italy.
Europe is a continent with over 50 countries. The European Union is an organisation. As of 2013, 28 of the countries in Europe are members of the European Union. Many countries in Europe are not members.
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No Eastern European countries were members of the European Union in 1993. The EU did not expand to the east until 2004 when nine Eastern European countries (with one Western European nation) joined the EU.
27 countries were members of the European Union in 2010.
The European Union, which has 28 of Europe's countries as members.
Countries are members of the European Union, not people or trade unions. As Malta is one country that is a member of the European Union, then the amount of members of the European Union from Malta is one.
In January 2007 there were 27 members of the European Union. See the related question below.
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All European countries are in Europe. What you probably meant is two European countries that are not members of the European Union. There are many of them. For example: Albania and Norway are not members of the European Union, but they are European countries. Europe is a continent and the European Union is an organisation.There are European countries whose borders extend from Europe into Asia, Turkey and Russia for instance, but they are still classed as European.
As of the 1st of July 2013, the EU has 28 members: 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 and United Kingdom. All other countries in the world are not members of the EU.
Both organisations have 28 members, though they are not the exact same 28 countries.