# EU RTime;ine

**Category:** Other

**Updated:** 1 Oct 2018

#### Contributors

Created by [Emilio Marmol](/content/user/336883/index.html)

#### Events

- [WWII ends.](/content/event/1748727/index.html)
- [The European Coal and Steel Community is created.](/content/event/1748728/index.html)
- [Sometime in 1957, the ECSC's name is changed from European Coal and Steel Community to European Economic Community (EEC).](/content/event/1762188/index.html)
- [The EEC's name is changed from European Economical Community to European Union (EU).](/content/event/1780653/index.html)
- [Denmark, Ireland, and the UK join the EU.](/content/event/1780654/index.html)
- [Greece joins the EU.](/content/event/1780655/index.html)
- [Spain and Portugal join the EU.](/content/event/1780656/index.html)
- [The Berlin Wall is torn down. East and West Germany reunite. More countries join the EU.](/content/event/1780657/index.html)
- [Austria, Finland, and Sweden join the EU.](/content/event/1780658/index.html)
- [Cyprus, Czech Rep, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the EU.](/content/event/1780659/index.html)
- [Bulgaria and Romania join the EU.](/content/event/1780660/index.html)
- [Croatia joins the EU.](/content/event/1780661/index.html)
- [28 member states currently and 2 prospective states (Turkey and Macedonia).](/content/event/1780662/index.html)