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The European Union is a group of European countries, originally established in 1992 by the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty). As of January 1, 2007, there are twenty-seven member countries of the European Union. The EU is not the same as Europe: several countries that are part of the continent Europe (e.g. Switzerland, Norway) are not part of the EU.

These countries are (in order of becoming a member) part of the EU:

As indicated in the list, unfortunately for travellers, not all of the countries that are a member of the European Union have the euro as their currency.

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