Talk:Member state of the European Union

Member state of the European Union was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
September 6, 2005	Featured list candidate	Not promoted
September 8, 2013	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 20, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Norway applied thrice to join the European Union, but failed to accede all three times?

Current status: Former good article nominee

This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination.

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RM, Member State of the European Union → Member states of the European Union, Superseded by subsequent request^[a], 19 December 2009, RM discussion
RM, Member State of the European Union → Membership of the European Union, No consensus, 28 December 2009, RM discussion
RM, Member State of the European Union → Member state of the European Union, Moved, 1 January 2011, RM discussion
RM, Member state of the European Union → Member states of the European Union, No consensus, 4 February 2020, RM discussion

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Lack of neutrality - withdrawal section

The following text under the "Withdrawal" section lacks neutrality of tone.

"The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 at 23:00 GMT ending 47 years of membership despite (subsequently incorrect) allegations of electoral misconduct during the referendum and repeated calls for a second referendum by those seeking to remain in the European Union irrespective of democratic votes otherwise"

In particular: "irrespective of democratic votes otherwise" and use of "despite". Further the allegations of electoral misconduct are not entirely settled especially given footnote 31: Dan Sabbagh, Luke Harding, Andrew Roth: Russia report reveals UK government failed to investigate Kremlin interference The Guardian, 21 July 2020.

Better text would simply read: "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 at 23:00 GMT ending 47 years of membership."

Allegation of electoral misconduct during the referendum should be handled separately. It would probably require engaging with the Russia report mentioned in fn 31. Similarly the issue of a second referendum would need to be addressed separately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.43.247.124 (talk) 15:23, 11 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Repetition in Withdrawal section

The final para, which is a summary of the stages of withdrawal of the UK, repeats a lot of info from three or four paras earlier. Boscaswell talk 07:47, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ukrainian membership

Has the Ukrainian government been allotted a membership in the E.U.? Is so, when? This will change the life of millions of people for the better. Let’s dump Putin. Democracy rules. 2600:1702:1F30:1190:7439:47E3:2BD0:ACD6 (talk) 23:22, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ISO country codes and the EU standard

ISO 3166-1 country codes aren't really used in EU context, so I don't see that as a relevant information to have in the table. However, EU has their own two-letter country code standard, which is described here in the Interinstitutional Style Guide by the Publications Office of the European Union. The EU standard is generally same as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, except in the case of Greece (EL).

I would propose to delete the three-letter ISO standard column, and change the two-letter ISO standard column to match the EU standard. A new heading for that could be "Country code" + a reference to the Interinstitutional Style Guide page. Samoasambia (talk) 00:27, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Title

This is a list article. Why is there no "list of" in the title? Gadir (talk) 12:31, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Map needs key

The map in the looks fine, but there is no key to indicate what the different shades of green are supposed to represent. I'm not sure the process for adding something like that, but even if I did I personally couldn't do it because I don't know what it is representative of. Fulner (talk) 19:52, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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