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Croatia joined the European Union on the 1st of July 2013.
Ten countries joined the European Union in 2004.
On the 1st of May 2004, the Greek part of Cyprus joined the European Union.
1st May 2004
There are currently no plans for Russia to join the European Union. It would have to make changes to many aspects of its society and economy in order to join, but it is not interested in joining.
Germany was one of the founding members that started the Europen community back in 1957 along with France, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium. Click on the link below for the history of the European Union.
Turkeyâ??s progress to join European Union has been quite slow, since there is opposition from some EU countries over Turkeyâ??s membership. It is now over half a decade of Turkeyâ??s struggle to join the union.