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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The future enlargement of the European Union is theoretically open to any European country which is democratic, operates a free market and is willing and able to implement all previous European Union law. Past enlargement has brought membership from six to twenty-eight members since the foundation of the European Union (EU) as the European Economic Community by the Inner Six in 1958. The accession criteria are included in the Copenhagen criteria, agreed in 1993, and the Treaty of Maastricht (Article 49). Whether a country is European or not is subject to political assessment by the EU institutions.There are five recognised candidates for membership: Turkey (applied in 1987), Macedonia (applied in 2004), Montenegro (applied in 2008), Albania (applied in 2009) and Serbia (applied in 2009). All candidate countries except Albania and Macedonia have started accession negotiations. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo*, whose independence is not recognised by five EU member states, are recognised as potential candidates for membership by the EU. Bosnia-Herzegovina has formally submitted an application for membership, while Kosovo has signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU, which generally precedes the lodging of membership application.The three major western European countries which are not EU members, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, have all submitted membership applications in the past, but subsequently froze them.According to an Eastern Partnership strategy, the EU is unlikely to invite any more of its post-Soviet neighbours to join the bloc before 2020. However, in 2014 the EU signed Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and the European Parliament passed a resolution recognising the \"European prospective\" of all three countries."@en }

• Future_enlargement_of_the_European_Union abstract "The future enlargement of the European Union is theoretically open to any European country which is democratic, operates a free market and is willing and able to implement all previous European Union law. Past enlargement has brought membership from six to twenty-eight members since the foundation of the European Union (EU) as the European Economic Community by the Inner Six in 1958. The accession criteria are included in the Copenhagen criteria, agreed in 1993, and the Treaty of Maastricht (Article 49). Whether a country is European or not is subject to political assessment by the EU institutions.There are five recognised candidates for membership: Turkey (applied in 1987), Macedonia (applied in 2004), Montenegro (applied in 2008), Albania (applied in 2009) and Serbia (applied in 2009). All candidate countries except Albania and Macedonia have started accession negotiations. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo*, whose independence is not recognised by five EU member states, are recognised as potential candidates for membership by the EU. Bosnia-Herzegovina has formally submitted an application for membership, while Kosovo has signed a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU, which generally precedes the lodging of membership application.The three major western European countries which are not EU members, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, have all submitted membership applications in the past, but subsequently froze them.According to an Eastern Partnership strategy, the EU is unlikely to invite any more of its post-Soviet neighbours to join the bloc before 2020. However, in 2014 the EU signed Association Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, and the European Parliament passed a resolution recognising the \"European prospective\" of all three countries.".