Albania (1944) Bulgaria (1878) Cyprus (1960) Poland (1025) Romania (1878)
Eastern European countries need to adopt more Western values to join the EU. These countries have already been doing so since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Many countries from Eastern Europe have joined the European Union since 2004. This makes it easier for them to travel to other European countries to get work. A lot of people from eastern European countries have travelled to countries in western Europe where there is more work, so a lot of eastern Europeans have gone to the United Kingdom.
Europe is referred to as Europe. As with any continent there are various geographical regions, so that is one way that the term Eastern Europe and Western Europe arises. More commonly it comes from the political aspect, from when countries in the east of Europe were communist and countries in the west of Europe were democracies. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and communism, that is no longer the case, but countries in that part of Europe are still referred to as being in Eastern Europe. So it is both a geographical and political term.
Eastern Europe has truly been in chaos since the fall of communism. Since the fall of communism, the population of Eastern Europe has been declining due to mass emigration. Most Eastern Europeans have been migrating to Western Europe or the United States, or to highly developed countries to have a better lifestyle. Great Britain is one of the most developed countries in the world and is a hotspot for immigrants.
The closest to a monarchy from eastern Europe is Liechenstein. It is on the border of eastern and western Europe. Prince Alois has been ruler of the country since 1989.
There are 20 countries in Eastern Europe Albania Belarus Bosnia and Herzegovnia Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Kosovo Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Poland Romainia Russia Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine
Yes, since Eastern Europe does not border the Atlantic.
No, it has always been considered part of the Eastern European Communist countries. Nowadays it it considered one of the eastern European Balkan countries.
Most of the original EU countries were from Western Europe since the European Union came into being as a result of Franco-West German economic agreements regarding coalmining. The Benelux countries wanted to be part of that agreement, forming the antecedents of the European Union. Additionally, Eastern Europe refused to recognize a common economic market because that would be a recognition of capitalism (as opposed to communism which prevailed in Eatern Europe).
Eastern Europe was traditionally where most Orthodox Christians were. Central Europe was more traditionally Catholic, while Western Europe was a mixture of Catholicism and Protestantism. Since World War II, Europe has become much less religious. The world? The main religions seem to be Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. Industrialized nations are getting more secular, Islam is increasing.
Countries with dominating Slavic ethnicities"Slav" redirects here. For the former Israeli settlement, see Slav (settlement). The linguistic classification Slavic peoples are the speakers of the Slavic language family, a branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in Europe, where they constitute roughly a third of the population. Since emerging from their original homeland (most commonly thought to be in Eastern Europe) in the early 6th century, they have inhabited most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Many settled later in Northern Asia or emigrated to other parts of the world.=== ===