Population 483 799EU member since 1957 (founding member)

It is the currency with the most cash in circulation in the world.

Area 30 530 km2Population 10 827 519EU member since 1957 (founding member)

GERMANY Area 357 030 km2Population 81 757 595EU member since 1957 (founding member)

Population 16 576 800EU member since 1957 (founding member)

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Poland is a free country, a member of NATO and of the EU, while the Soviet Union is no more.

Have a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitivepressure and market forces within the Union

Member of the EU and NATO since 2004.

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mobility of postgraduate students in both directions EU Partner Country and Partner Country EU as an integral part of their studies.

No EU member has taken such an approach.

mobility of undergraduate students in the last year of study in both directions EU Partner Country and Partner Country EU as an integral part of the degree course.

All are far poorer than the EU average.

Is the poorest country in the European Union poorer than the poorest state in the United States?

Is the richest country in the European Union richer than the richest state in the United States?

Each Member State will also draw up a programme of cost effective measures.

The EU works with either non EU states, such as NATO members like Canada, Norway, and Turkey, or applicants for EU membership.

Area 30 530 km2Population 10 666 866EU member since 1957 (founding member)

Population 502 207EU member since 1957 (founding member)

A member of the euro zone cannot be expelled under current rules, allowing countries like Greece to lie, manipulate, blackmail, and collect more and more EU funds.

Each Member State, in close cooperation with the relevant other Member States and third countries within a Marine Region, will be required to develop Marine Strategies for its marine waters.

Whether a country is European or not is subject to political assessment by the EU institutions.

When a country joins the EC, it must accept the aquis communautaire in full.

Area 301 340 km2Population 60 397 353EU member since 1957 (founding member)

Although Germany s share of the EU population is 17 , it receives 13 of the voting rights in the EU Parliament.

Although Germany s share of the EU population is 17 , it receives 13 of the voting rights in the EU Parliament.

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Each member state has selfishly focused on its own interests, often acting against the interests of others.

Our country, as a member of international society, will implement its commitment to the just and early solution of the nuclear issue.

It was assumed that Cyprus should be united when the country joined the EU in 2004.

At least one university in one European Community Member State, and one consortium member (university, institution or industry company) in a different Member State

Any country can leave the EU and, of course, the eurozone when the burden of its obligations becomes too onerous.

Each project should represent at least one Member State and one Partner Country.

As a member of the European Union, Greece at least can hope for assistance from other EU members.

The EU cannot let Cyprus stew in its own juice, not least because as a member state the island is proving an uncomfortable bedfellow.

But now the European Union's security, in the south east Mediterranean, is in jeopardy to the fact that Turkey (a member of Nato) and Greece (a member of the EU and of Nato) are at daggers drawn.

The whole of Cyprus joined the EU in May 2004, but the acquis communautaire the body of EU law applies only to areas under direct government control, so it is suspended in those parts administered by Turkish Cypriots.

Area 312 690 km2Population 38 115 641EU member since 2004Currency zloty (PLN)

Area 244 100 km2Population 61 193 524EU member since 1973Currency pound sterling (GBP)

All population figures Eurostat (2008)

Poland would be a compromise with respect to nationality, because it is both a European Union member and an emerging market country

Hungary is now an EU member, and Romania is poised to join (though its membership is a bit delayed because of a lagging domestic reform process).

At a time of anti establishment rage and political upheaval, anti EU campaigners can peddle three fantasies of a post EU future a free market, foreigner free, or socialist Utopia.

Our country, a responsible member of the international community, is contributing to speeding those processes by acting simultaneously on several tracks.