The European Union (EU) is a group of countries in Europe. If you are an EU citizen, you can live in other EU countries. You don’t need a visa or a residence permit. Most EU countries use the Euro as their currency.

There are 27 countries are in the European Union:1

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Croatia
  • Cyprus
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden

Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway are not in the EU, but they are in the European Economic Area.

List of European Union countries

Sources and footnotes
  1. europa.eu, gov.uk, World Bank API