About Europe

With approximately 731 million people ,Europe is a major trading partner.The following countries are part of Europe;

Albania Andorra Azarbajan Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovinia Bulgaria Denmark Germany Estonia Finland France Georgia(a narrow strip north of the highest ridge of the Caucasus) Greece(except the Dodecanese and other Aegan islands off the Turkish coast) Hungary Ireland Iceland Italy Kazakhstan(portion west off the Ural river) Croatia Latvia liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldavia Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Ukraine Austria Poland Portugal Romania Russia(portion west of the Ural Mountains) San Marino Serbia Slovenia Slovakia Spain Czech Republic Turkey (in west and north of the bosphorus, the sea of Marmara and the Dardanelles) Vatican United Kingdom Belarus Sweden Switzerland

Not all of these countries are members of the European Union and not all of these countries use the Euro.

The following Countries use the euro;

1) Andorra
2) Austria
3) Belgium
4) Cyprus
5) Finland
6) France
7) Germany
8) Greece
9) Ireland
10) Italy
11) Kosovo
12) Luxembourg
13) Malta
Andorra, Kosovo, Montenegro, Monaco, San Marino, and the Vatican City are not EU members but do officially use the euro as their currencies.

The following are the current Schengen zone members:

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
The Schengen Area operates like a single state for international travel with border controls for travellers travelling in and out of the area, but with no internal border controls.

A good site with information about the European Union is;http://europa.eu/.Here you will find information about the functioning of Europe and its institutions.

If you wish to work for Europe you have to go tot the following site;http://europa.eu/epso/index_en.htm.

Your resume online by going to this site ; http://ec.europa.eu/civil_service/job/cvonline/index_en.htm

Jobs at the European Union are popular and there are a lot of candidates.Jobs at the european union are well paid.

The current president of the European union is Belgium.

A few famous monuments in Europe are:

- The Eiffel Tower in Paris(France)

- The Atomium in Brussels(Belgium)

- Big Ben in London(UK)

Food corner.

- Belgium is known for its beers, its fries.

- France is known for his wine,for his French cooking.

- Netherlands is known for its cheese.

- England is known for its beer, ale.

- Scotland is known for his haggis.

- Spain and Italy are known for their Meditteranean cuisine that would be very healthy.

- Germany is known for its sausages and sauerkraut.

- Greece currently has debtproblems .Italie is probably the next country will face problems with its debt.

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