The number of steps required to join the EU
What is three?
When the Soviet Union dissolved
What is 1991?
How many accession criteria the EU has
What is three?
The enlargement that occurred in 2004
What is the 'Big Bang' enlargement?
The current conflict complicating EU enlargement processes
What is the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Countries that are eligible to join the European Union
What is any in Europe or Eurasia?
The year the Berlin Wall fell
What is 1989?
The 'Six' countries that founded the original European integration organization
What is (West) Germany, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy?
The treaty that created the European Union
What is the Maastricht Treaty of 1993?
The last country to complete the accession process with the European Union
What is Croatia?
The process of modifying domestic laws / standards to align with EU ones
What is acquis communautaire?
The security organization Poland was a part of during the Cold War
What is The Warsaw Pact?
The purpose of EU integration
What is bringing new countries into the EU and promoting greater regional stability?
The treaty that established the EEC (one of the major predecessor organizations to the European Union)
What is the Treaty of Rome, 1957?
The only current potential EU candidate
What is Kosovo?
The country planning to submit its candidacy request in the coming months
What is Armenia?
How many parts Germany was split into during the Cold War
What is two?
The name of Poland's democratization movement
What is Solidarity, or 'Solidarnosc?'
The year the UK officially left the European Union
What is 2021?
The 9 countries that are currently official EU candidates
What is: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine?
The number of EU member states that have to approve a candidate's membership status
What is all member states?
The only non-Eastern bloc country that joined during the 2004 'Big Bang' enlargement
What is Cyprus?
The Copenhagen criteria
What is: having a stable democracy, functioning market economy, and ability to implement the rules and laws of the EU?
The year of the first democratic elections held in Poland since before 1928
What is 1991?
The agricultural policy that plays a surprisingly large role in the enlargement process
What is the Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP?