European Union

The goal of the European Union is to form a stronger, more unified Europe in order to have greater stability and strength in global markets. They have a common market with a single currency. Member states agree to abide by common laws that guarantee freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital.

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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

United States of America, China, Russia, Most south American countries, South Africa, France, Italy, Poland, Germany....many more

Belarus, Czech Republic. Germany, Lithuania. Russia, Slovakia and the Ukraine.
Poland's neighbors are the following:Lithuania and Russia to the north, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, Germany to the west, Czech republic and Slovakia to the south. Poland also boarders Denmark and Sweden by sea.

Besides the obvious answer of Germany... Austria and Liechtenstein. Switzerland has three official languages, one of which is German.

Japan is not in the European Union.

No countries joined the EU in 2009. You cannot say what the previous three were as two joined at the same time in 2007 and ten joined at the same time in 2004.

The Euro doesn't have an abbreviation (it is only 4 letters!), but it does have a symbol: '€'.

At the beginning, when it was the European Common Market.

to expand land and get a profit

Australia has never been part of the European Union EU . Perhaps you confused Australia with Austria

There were 10 countries that joined in 2004.

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Estonia

Hungary

Latvia

Lithuania

Malta

Poland

Slovakia

Slovenia

There is no standard International definition for developed. However, since the end of its civil war in the 1990's, and with its close relationship with the United States, El Salvador has become one of the fastest developing countries in Latin America, as well as the world.

Originally the European Union was a treaty organization for the purpose of doing away with tariffs on coal and steal. It added other commodities. Gradually, it became a confederation with suggested laws for all its members. Some taxes applied to some members and some to all members. It is slowly evolving toward a Federation. Certain decisions taken in Belgium apply to all members.

The European Union is not a complete federal union where the decisions made at governmental headquarters apply to all members. It is still partly a confederation where states can opt out of certain decisions. As in a confederation, they can not opt out of the decisions they have permanently turned over to the supranational government.

Countries are part of the Union. They apply to join. They are not elected to join. Countries can elect people to represent them in the European Union after they have joined.

the french wanted it, they would not agree to German reunification* unless a common European currency would be created.

*after ww2 Germany was divided into 4 sectors, one under American, one under british, one under sowjet and one under french occupation. The three former formed west-Germany, the latter east Germany. those four powers had to agree to reunification before it could happen.

Yes. Finland became a member in 1995. All member states can be found by typing 'European Union' in Wikipedia.

The European Union is considered a world-power by some. It is a large organization that covers much of Europe and involves a wide-scale population and has the largest economy in the world. It is crucial to the global economy and to Europe.

There are currently candidate countries:

Iceland

Montenegro

Serbia

Macedonia

Turkey

Albania has also sent in their application, which must be reviewed and accepted before they can be a candidate.

Bosnia and Herzegovina have said that they would fill out an application for admission in 2009 and 2010, but no application was received by the EU. The country is most likely still creating one and will send one in the future. In addition, Bosnians and Herzegovinians are allowed to travel visa-free to the EU.

Kosovo is also seen as a possible candidate by the EU and its politicians predict Kosovo will join the EU by 2015. However, no application has been filled out and Kosovaars are still not allowed to travel visa-free to the EU.

While Turkey is not an EU member state, there are numerous treaties between Turkey and the EU. Most important among these is the European Union-Turkey Customs Union of 1996.

There are a lot of countries that make up the EU and here they are

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

Yes, Romania is a part of European Union.

Europe does not have a president because it is not a country so it does not have one specific leader.

Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007. The UK joined in 1973.

Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Ireland, The United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria and Finland were all members of the European Union before 2004.