Q 01/05

How many member states does the European Union have?

A) 28

B) 30

C) 32

D) 27

Answer · why

D) 27

There were 28 until the United Kingdom left in 2020; ten more countries are aspiring or negotiating to join.

Q 02/05

The treaty that formally established the European Union in 1993 is named after which Dutch city?

A) Rotterdam

B) Maastricht

C) Amsterdam

D) Utrecht

Answer · why

B) Maastricht

It also created EU citizenship and renamed the EEC the European Community.

Q 03/05

The 1957 Treaty of Rome created which body, the direct forerunner of today's EU?

A) European Economic Community

B) European Coal and Steel Community

C) European Free Trade Association

D) Council of Europe

Answer · why

A) European Economic Community

The same six countries signed a second pact that day creating Euratom for nuclear cooperation.

Q 04/05

Which of these was NOT one of the six founding states of the 1957 Treaty of Rome?

A) Luxembourg

B) Italy

C) Belgium

D) Denmark

Answer · why

D) Denmark

Denmark joined in 1973 alongside Ireland and the United Kingdom, in the first enlargement.

Q 05/05

On which date was the Schuman Declaration made, now marked as Europe Day?

A) 9 May 1950

B) 1 January 1950

C) 25 March 1957

D) 1 November 1993

Answer · why

A) 9 May 1950

French foreign minister Robert Schuman spoke the day after the fifth anniversary of VE Day.