European Union

Member states of the European Union (in green)

Meaning

A supranational organisation, consisting of 27 member states, created in the 1950s to bring the nations of Europe into closer economic and political connection.
An antifascist resistance group active during Germany’s Nazi era.

Formed as European + union, in the sense of the resistance group, after the German Europäische Union.

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