EU Member States

English name	Membership year	Code	Local name	Capital	Official language(s)	Currency
Austria	1995	AT	Österreich	Vienna	German (de)	euro (€)
Belge	1957	BE	Belgique, België, Belgien	Bruxelles	French (fr), Dutch (nl), German (de)	euro (€)
Bulgaria	2007	BG	България (Bulgaria)	Sofia	Bulgarian (bg)	lev (BGN)
Croatia	2013
Cyprus^{N 1}	2004	CY	Κύπρος (Kýpros), Kıbrıs	Nicosia	Greek (el), Turkish (tr)	euro (€), Turkish lira (TRY)^{N 2}
Denmark	1973	DK	Danmark	Copenhagen	Danish (da)	Danish krone(DKK)
Estonia	2004	EE	Eesti	Tallinn	Estonian (et)	euro (€)
Finland	1995	FI	Suomi	Helsinki	Finnish (fi), Swedish (sv)	euro (€)
France	1957	FR	France	Paris	French (fr)	euro (€)
Germany	1957	DE	Deutschland	Berlin	German (de)	euro (€)
Greece	1981	EL, GR^{N 3}	Ελλάδα (Elláda), Ελλάς (Ellás)	Athens	Greek (el)	euro (€)
Hungary	2004	HU	Magyarország	Budapest	Hungarian (hu)	forint (HUF)
Irland	1973	IE	Éire, Ireland	Dublin	Irish (ga), English (en)	euro (€)
Italy	1957	IT	Italia	Rome	Italian (it)	euro (€)
Latvia	2004	LV	Latvija	Riga	Latvian (lv)	lats (LVL)
Lithuania	2004	LT	Lietuva	Vilnius	Lithuanian (lt)	litas (LTL)
Luxembourg	1957	LU	Lëtzebuerg, Luxembourg, Luxemburg	Luxembourg	Luxembourg (lb), French (fr), German (de)	euro (€)
Malta	2004	MT	Malta	La Valette	Maltese (mt), English (en)	euro (€)
Netherlands	1957	NL	Nederland	Amsterdam^{N 4}	Dutch (nl)	euro (€)
Poland	2004	PL	Polska	Warsaw	Polish (pl)	złoty (PLN)
Portugal	1986	PT	Portugal	Lisbon	Portuguese (pt)	euro (€)
Czech Republic	2004	CZ	Česká republika	Prague	Czech (cz)	Czech koruna(CZK)
Romania	2007	RO	România	Bucharest	Romanian (ro)	leu (RON)
Slovakia	2004	SK	Slovensko	Bratislava	Slovak (sk)	euro (€)
Slovenia	2004	SI	Slovenija	Ljubljana	Slovenian (sl)	euro (€)
Spain	1986	ES	España	Madrid	Spanish (es)	euro (€)
Suede	1995	SE	Sverige	Stockholm	Swedish (sv)	Swedish krona(SEK)
UK	1973	UK, GB^{N 5}	United Kingdom	London	English (en)	Pound sterling (GBP)
↑ The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which proclaimed independence is not recognized internationally, formally part of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, a member of the European Union, it is excluded for the purpose of most provisions of the Treaties of the European Union. ↑ The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus does not use the euro, but the Turkish currency. ↑ EL representing the Hellenic Republic Ελληνική Δημοκρατία GR and its territory (Interinstitutional Style Union). ↑ The capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but The Hague is the seat of government of the State of the Netherlands (excluding the United States overseas that are not in the EU). ↑ UK representing State, GB representing the metropolitan territory of the United Kingdom on the island of Great Britain, excluding Northern Ireland. (The Isle of Man and the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey are British possessions of the Crown and are not formally part of the United Kingdom, are not part of either the United Kingdom”s overseas territories who are mostly not part of either the European Union, to the exclusion of Gibraltar who has a special status). Only the United Kingdom itself belongs to the European Union, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are not (Interinstitutional Style Union).

Outermost regions

The outermost regions are part of the European Union. They include:

Four of the five overseas departments (DOM) French: Guadeloupe (GP), French Guiana (GF), Martinique (MQ) and Reunion (RE), as well as community overseas French St. Martin;
The two autonomous Portuguese regions: the Azores (AZO) and Madeira (Mad);
An autonomous community in Spain: Canary Islands (Can).

Candidate countries and potential candidates

European countries with a democratic government with a market economy, with the will and the ability to apply the laws of the European Union already established and meet the Copenhagen criteria and in Article 49 Treaty on European Union European eligible to join the European Union.

The European Union recognizes six candidates who filed their application and have been accepted in principle. These states have begun or will soon begin the accession process by adopting European laws to align these States to the rest of the Union. Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia are among the countries of the former Yugoslavia who had their applications accepted. The other two states of the breakup of the country, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have the status of potential candidate. Albania has already made it on the application file in 2009 without it is recognized, the European Commission has recommended 10 October 2012 to grant Albania candidate status. Turkey submitted its application in 1987 and received candidate status in 1999. This owes as much to the difficulty of aligning the country with the standards of the EU and political issues surrounding the country”s accession. For its part, Iceland has obtained candidate status recognized within one year (16 July 2009 – 17 June 2010).