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  1. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [2] NATO currently recognizes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Ukraine as aspiring members as part of their Open Doors enlargement policy. [3]

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    • The European Economic Area (EEA)

    The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 countries. It operates an internal (or single) market which allows free movement of goods, capital, services and people between member states.

    The EU countries are:

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

    The EEA includes EU countries and also Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. It allows them to be part of the EU’s single market.

    Switzerland is not an EU or EEA member but is part of the single market. This means Swiss nationals have the same rights to live and work in the UK as other EEA nationals.

  2. Which Are the Schengen Area Countries? The 29 Schengen countries are Austria, Bulgaria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and ...

  3. May 1, 2004 · Overview. Capital: Tallinn. Official EU language (s): Estonian. EU Member State: since 1 May 2004. Currency: euro (€) Euro area member since 1 January 2011. Schengen: member since 21 December 2007. Figures: Geographical size: 45 336 km 2. Population: 1 374 687 (2024) (Source: Eurostat - figures for geographical size and population)

  4. The EEA is currently composed of all 27 EU countries (including Croatia, which enjoys provisional status while its membership awaits full ratification) and the three EFTA countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

  5. Aug 24, 2022 · Estonia became an EU member state in 2004 after six years of accession negotiations. At the same time, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta, and Cyprus joined the EU.

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  7. Sep 25, 2024 · After centuries of Danish, Swedish, German, and Russian rule, Estonia attained independence in 1918. Forcibly incorporated into the USSR in 1940, it regained its freedom in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union and has since joined NATO, the EU, and the OECD.

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