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European Union members

	Area	Pop'n	Date of ('000) joining	European commissioners (1997)	Members in European Parliament
	Sq km	Sq mi
Applications for membership
Turkey (1987), Malta (1990), Cyprus (1991), Switzerland⁵ (1992), Poland, Hungary (1994), Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania (1995), Czech Republic, Slovenia (1996)
¹ Founder member of the European Economic Community (following the Treaty of Rome, signed 25 March 1957)
² Greenland exercised its autonomous right granted under the Danish Crown to secede from the Community in 1985
³ Includes the President of the EP, José Maria Gil-Delgado
⁴ Includes the President of the EU, Romano Prodi
⁵ In a subsequent referendum the people of Switzerland voted against joining the European Economic Area
⁶ Outside the eurozone
Austria	83,850	32,374	8,065	1995	1	21
Belgium¹	30,510	11,780	10,239	1957	1	25
Denmark^2,7	43,070	16,629	5,349	1973	1	16
Finland	338,130	130,552	5,171	1995	1	16
France¹	551,500	212,934	60,186	1957	2	86
Germany¹	356,910	137,803	82,163	1957	2	99
Greece	131,990	50,961	10,939	1981	1	25
Ireland	70,280	27,135	3,626	1973	1	15
Italy¹	301,270	116,320	58,082	1957	2⁴	87
Luxembourg¹	2590	1000	439	1957	1	6
Netherlands¹	41,526	16,033	15,983	1957	1	31
Portugal	92,390	35,670	10,230	1986	1	25
Spain	504,780	194,896	40,974	1986	2	64³
Sweden⁷	449,960	173,730	8,909	1995	1	22
UK⁷	243,368	94,202	58,393	1973	2	87

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