User:Nightstallion/european integration process (by country)
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This is a summary of the proceedings of the process of European integration for the 49 European states (and Cape Verde, for special reasons), namely resolution of conflicts and internal or external issues as well as membership and accession to the following organizations and treaties:
- European Union
- Exchange Rate Mechanism II - Euro
- Schengen
- ESA (technically not linked to EU membership)
- Western European Union
- WTrO
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European Union Member States (27)
- Integration completed (Euro, ESA, Schengen, WEU, WTrO):
- Constitution ratified:
Austria — WEU observer
Bulgaria — ERM II - Euro — Schengen — ESA — WEU associate partner
Cyprus — Euro — Schengen — unification with 
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus — ESA — WEU
Estonia — Euro — Schengen — ESA — WEU associate partner
Finland — WEU observer
Hungary — ERM II - Euro — Schengen — ESA (PECS member - to join ESA by 2008?) — WEU associate member
Latvia — Euro — Schengen — ESA — WEU associate partner
Lithuania — Euro — Schengen — ESA — WEU associate partner
Malta — Euro — Schengen — ESA — WEU
Romania — ERM II - Euro — Schengen — ESA (PECS member - to join in a few years' time?) — WEU associate partner
Slovakia — Euro — Schengen — ESA — WEU associate partner
Slovenia — Schengen — ESA — WEU associate partner
- Constitution not ratified:
France - referendum on 29 May 2005 resulted in a 
No
Netherlands - referendum on 1 June 2005 resulted in a No — status of 
Aruba and 
Netherlands Antilles
- Constitution to be ratified by parliament:
Czech Republic - lower and upper house postponed — ERM II - Euro — Schengen — ESA (PECS member - to join ESA by 2009?) — WEU associate member
Sweden - parliament postponed — ERM II - Euro — WEU observer
- Constitution to be ratified by referendum:
Denmark - referendum postponed, parliament — Euro — independence of 
Faroe Islands — independence of 
Greenland — WEU observer
Ireland - referendum date not set yet, lower and upper house — Schengen — unification with 
Northern Ireland — WEU observer
Poland - referendum postponed, lower and upper house — ERM II - Euro — Schengen — ESA (to sign PECS by 2007?) — WEU associate member
Portugal - referendum postponed, parliament
United Kingdom - referendum postponed, lower and upper house — ERM II - Euro — Schengen — status of Northern Ireland — status of Overseas Territories — independence of 
Scotland — status of 
Wales
[edit] Associated States (7)
- Countries in negotiations for membership:
- Candidate countries:
Republic of Macedonia - applied 22 March 2004 — to resolve naming dispute with Greece
- Countries to apply for membership:
Albania - signed SAA in June 2006, still to be ratified; to apply for EU membership
- Countries in negotiations for SAA:
Bosnia and Herzegovina - in SAA negotiations — to apply for EU membership — negotiating WTrO accession
Montenegro - in SAA negotiations — to apply for EU membership — negotiating WTrO accession
Serbia - in SAA negotiations — to apply for EU membership — status of 
Kosovo — negotiating WTrO accession
[edit] Microstates (4)
- Eurozone and de facto Schengen region:
Monaco — WTrO
San Marino — WTrO
Vatican City — to start Schengen negotiations
- de facto Schengen region, non-Eurozone:
Andorra — in negotiations to adopt Euro as legal tender since October 2004 — negotiating WTrO accession
[edit] Schengen Region (2)
Iceland — to decide on EU membership — WEU associate member
Norway — to decide on EU membership (by 2009?) — ESA member — WEU associate member
[edit] Not Closely Associated Yet (11)
- Striving for EU membership:
Cape Verde - to apply for EU membership despite not being in Europe — negotiating WTrO accession
Georgia - to apply for EU membership — status of 
Abkhazia — status of 
South Ossetia — removal of Russian troops (by 2008?)
Moldova - to apply for EU membership — status of 
Transnistria
Ukraine - to apply for EU membership — negotiating WTrO accession
- Soon to be closely associated:
Liechtenstein - to ratify Schengen agreement [1]
Switzerland - to be moved to Schengen Region — to decide on EU membership — ESA member
- Not associated at all:
Armenia - 
Nagorno-Karabakh issue
Azerbaijan - negotiating WTrO accession – Nagorno-Karabakh issue
Belarus - not even a member of the Council of Europe — negotiating WTrO accession
Kazakhstan - not even a member of the Council of Europe — negotiating WTrO accession
Russia - negotiating WTrO accession
