January 1, 1973 is the day that the UK joined the European Union.
Great Britain is composed of England, Wales and Scotland. The UK is Britain + Northern Ireland. To join the EU as Great Britain would be to exclude Northern Ireland from the EU.
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The UK applied for membership to the European Union on August 10, 1961, but later cancelled. They applied a second time on May 10, 1967 and was granted admission on January 1, 1973. The UK was asked to be a founding member of the EU, but refused.
Monaco did not join the EU.
No treaty, but a referendum on whether or not to join the EEC was held in the UK.
No, the UK will not leave the European Union, at least not any time soon.
The UK was a founding member of the EU.
There is no country called Sami in the EU
The USA has not applied to join the EU, and is unlikely to join in the future. The USA would be ineligible to join for several reasons, including capital punishment.
Switzerland is not in the EU, so it cannot join the Euro area.
No, The Government was basically told, if your part of Europe you should join the EU and our Media went all crazy saying how great being in the EU was and the government decided to Join , Simple as.