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Hello, everyone, I am Marlin Cathlina, a broadcaster of the 1 "Making the Nations". Today I'd like to share something about European Union with you.
The European Union is an 2 of European countries. The countries are 3 countries that are governed in different ways. In the United Kingdom, for 4 , the head of state is a king or a queen. In France, on the other hand, the head of state is a 5 .
But each of them sends their own representatives to the European Parliament, which has some 6 over what happens in each of the member countries. The idea of the European Union 7 in the 1950s. The first members were France, Germany, Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and 8 .
The number increased rapidly during the second half of the
9 century. By the year 2000, there were 15 member countries. In 2004, the European Union increased to 25 members. The expanded European Union has a population of more than half a billion people,
10 as big as the population of the United States.