western europe countries Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/western-europe-countries Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:27:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 WESTERN EUROPE TODAY: EUROPEAN UNION http://toursmaps.com/western-europe-today-european-union.html http://toursmaps.com/western-europe-today-european-union.html#respond Wed, 21 Dec 2016 06:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228313 WESTERN EUROPE TODAY: EUROPEAN UNION The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 symbolized the fall of communism and the end of the Cold War in the Western world. At the Treaty of Maastricht in 1991, the European Union was created from the European Economic Community, eliminating national barriers for the movement of goods, services, workers, and capital. Twelve EU members Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain adopted the euro (‚) as legal tender on January 1, 2002. And while concerns over xenophobia have been rising, thirteen Eastern European countries are

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