European Union

The European Union is a Economic and Political Community of Nations located on Europe of growing sugnifigance, its capital is Brussels. EU Member States include

• 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'
• The United Kingdom'

'-Part of the EU, but not currently part of the Eurozone

The European Union is not yet a nation state, although it is moving towards it, maintaing a small standing army (Eurocorps) and a standardized currency in most member states. Many Europeans having mixed feelings about this.