Talk: European Community

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Are you sure Sweden is a member of the European Community? It was not a member of the European Union when it was established, and the other 'new' EU members are not on the list.

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Yes, Sweden is an EU member -- every member of the EU is in the EC, and every member in the EC is in the EU. The EU and the EC are basically the same organization. (Techincally, only the EC is legally an organization, and the EU is composed of the EC and also wider non-EC responsibilities in areas such as foreign policy, security and defence, policing and crime co-operation.) Also, all the the 'new' EU members are on the list -- your not thinking of the candidate countries are you? (They are not yet members.) --- Simon J Kissane