Original: Romania signed its Europe Agreement in 1993Chronology of the Fifth EU Enlargement, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom and submitted its official application for membership in the EU in 1995, the third of the post-Cold War Eastern European countries to do so after Hungary and Poland.
Simplified: Chronology of the Fifth EU Enlargement, Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom and put itself forward to become a member in 1995.