European Union

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  • The European Union (EU) is an economic and political union of 27 member states which are located primarily in Europe.^[7]
  • The last amendment to the constitutional basis of the EU, the Treaty of Lisbon, came into force in 2009.
  • The Maastricht Treaty established the European Union under its current name in 1993
  • A monetary union, the eurozone, was established in 1999 and is currently composed of seventeen member states.