27 countries in 2010
Bulgaria in total 18 seats after 2009 election (same number like Austria)
Orthodox churches refuse to accept the authority of the Pope. Eastern Orthodoxy is the majority religion in a number of European countries. This list of countries includes:Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Georgia.
No. It wants to grow. Currently there are 27 members, but a number of countries are applying to join.
The major members were Germany, Italy and Japan. The military-contributing minor members were Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Cobelligerents were Thailand, Finland, Iraq and San Marino. There were also a number of Axis client states such as Manchuria, Slovakia and Croatia. Several nations were also not members of the Axis powers but were cooperating in a way that made their neutrality questionable (Vichy France, Spain, Sweden etc)
The river Danube separates Bulgaria and Romania. Bulgarian language is Slavic like Russian. Romanian is in the same language group as Italian. The main religion in both counties is Eastern Orthodox.
27 Great Britain, Germany, Spain Austria, France, Poland, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia & Sweden.
Romania has 22.760.000 inhabitants.
The number of Iranians in Romania is very small.
The country with the most Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) is Germany. Germany has a total of 96 MEPs, which is the highest number among all the European Union member states.
Romania has now 263 towns.
No countries have been added to the European Union since April 2008. The last countries to be added to the EU were in January 2007, when Bulgaria and Romania joined. Their addition brought the total number of member states to 27. Three countries were considered as candidate countries: Croatia, Turkey, and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
10 countries joined the European Union in 2004, almost doubling the number of states in the EU the previous year (there were 15 in 2003). The countries were: Slovenia Slovakia Poland Malta Latvia Lithuania Hungary Estonia Czech Republic Cyprus