2007 enlargement of the European Union [SEP] point in time
2007 enlargement of the European Union
The 2007 enlargement of the European Union saw Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union (EU) on 1 January 2007. Together with the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, it is considered part of the fifth wave of enlargement of the European Union.
Negotiations.
Romania was the first country of post-communist Europe to have official relations with the European Community. In 1974, a treaty included Romania in the Community's Generalized System of Preferences. After the Romanian Revolution of 1989
in the Council and the loss of the larger states' second European Commissioner. Planning also began on new amending treaties to ready the bloc for the next enlargement.
See also.
- Enlargement of the European Union
- Future enlargement of the European Union
- Statistics relating to enlargement of the European Union
- 2004 enlargement of the European Union
- 2007 enlargement of the European Union