Malta is not coloured in on the map because it's too small. I only count 26 coloured in areas. I appear to have forgot to colour in Cyprus, European member state since 2004, the status of ratification within which is also unknown to me.
The big white blotch on the Balkans is due to become smaller in 2012 when Croatia joins the Union (they are the country that look a C in the North). An interesting issue not solved by any transition protocol as of yet is what will happen with the Lisbon constitution of the parliament (fixed number of MEPs 751) when they need transitional observer representation (a system applied in the case of Romanian and Bulgarian ascension between 2007-2009) in the Union's strongest democratic governing body.
Malta is not coloured in on the map because it's too small. I only count 26 coloured in areas. I appear to have forgot to colour in Cyprus, European member state since 2004, the status of ratification within which is also unknown to me.
The big white blotch on the Balkans is due to become smaller in 2012 when Croatia joins the Union (they are the country that look a C in the North). An interesting issue not solved by any transition protocol as of yet is what will happen with the Lisbon constitution of the parliament (fixed number of MEPs 751) when they need transitional observer representation (a system applied in the case of Romanian and Bulgarian ascension between 2007-2009) in the Union's strongest democratic governing body.