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How countries can join the EU

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The European Union already has 27 members and other countries want to join, but how does a country join the EU, EU affairs?

It has to meet a number of criteria, the first of which is that it must be in Europe. In addition, it must be a democracy, have a free market economy and respect EU values.

As a condition of joining, a country must adopt all EU laws and agree to swap its currency for the euro in the future.

Currently five countries are in talks to join the EU: Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey.

Find out more about EU enlargement.

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