MEMBER COUNTRIES
The European Union
The European Union (EU) is a partnership of 27 democratic countries, working together for the benefit of all citizens. It aims to promote social and economic progress among its members, common foreign and security positions, police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters, and European citizenship.
The European Council of Interior Architects (ECIA), originally founded 1962, represents 16 EU Countries. The Society of British Interior Design was accepted into the ECIA in September 2009 in Helsinki and is the first organisation to represent the British Interior Design profession as a full member of the ECIA.
The 27 countries in the EU are listed below, by the year they joined:
- 1958 - Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands
- 1973 - Denmark, Ireland, UK
- 1981 - Greece
- 1986 - Portugal, Spain
- 1995 - Austria, Finland, Sweden
- 2004 - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
- 2007 - Romania, Bulgaria
*Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey are official candidates to join the EU.
ECIA Member Countries
- Austria
- Belgium
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Norway
- Poland
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- The Netherlands
- UK
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