Austria joined the European Union in 1995. Its capital city is Vienna and hosts a number of international organisations, including the Secretariat of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Internati ...

Belgium is a founding member of the European Union. The country is a federal state divided into three regions: Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north, Wallonia in the south where the language is French, and Brussels, the ...

Welcome to the British Consulate in Marseille.
The British Consulate-General in Marseille covers the following departments in the southern part of France: Pyrenées-Orientales, Aude, Hérault, Lo ...

The official ceremony inaugurating the new Canadian flag was held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on February 15, 1965, with Governor General Georges Vanier, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, the members of the Cabinet an ...

Denmark entered the European Union in  1973. Its capital city is Copenhagen. The country consists of the peninsula of Jutland (Jylland) and some 400 named islands. Of these, 82 are inhabited, with the largest bein ...

Finland joined the European Union in 1995. As a result of the Swedish occupation during seven centuries (from the 12th century until 1809) some 6% of the population is Swedish-speaking. Finland became an independent st ...

Germany was a founding member of the European Union. German is the most widely spoken first language in the European Union.Germany is the world's third largest economy, producing automobiles, precision engineering ...

Greece entered the European Union in 1981. Located near the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Greece forms the southern extremity of the Balkan peninsula in south-east Europe. Its territory includes more than 2,000 island ...

Sweden joined the European Union in 1995 and has the largest population of the Nordic countries. It is separated in the west from Norway by a range of mountains. It shares the Gulf of Bothnia at the north end o ...

Ireland is a country in north-western Europe occupying five-sixths of the island of Ireland. It is bordered by Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) to the north, by the Atlantic Ocean to th ...