Criteria for EU Admission

Will you please provide me the joining criteria of EU? Give me the list of member states.

[Kiran Chandar]

The European Union (EU) is a politico-economic union of 28 member states. These are situated in Europe. This union operates these member states through a system of supranational independent institutions and intergovernmental negotiated decisions.

Copenhagen criteria
These are the rules that define whether a country is eligible to join the European Union.

The European Union Membership criteria are defined by the three documents:
The 1992 Treaty of Maastricht (Article 49)
The declaration of the June 1993 European Council in Copenhagen, i.e., Copenhagen criteria—describing the general policy in more details
political
economic
legislative
Framework for negotiations with a particular candidate state
specific and detailed conditions
statement stressing that the new member cannot take its place in the Union until it is considered that the EU itself has enough "absorption capacity" for this to happen.

Member states:
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
United Kingdom

Languages of the European Union:
English
German
French
Italian
Spanish
Polish
Romanian
Dutch
Greek
Hungarian
Portuguese
Czech
Swedish
Bulgarian
Slovak
Danish
Finnish
Lithuanian
Croatian
Slovenian
Estonian
Irish
Latvian
Maltese