2004 enlargement of the European Union | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:06 1 History
00:01:15 1.1 Background
00:02:16 1.2 Negotiations
00:03:13 1.3 Accession
00:04:34 1.4 Progress
00:04:49 2 Free movement issues
00:09:08 3 Remaining areas of inclusion
00:09:49 4 New member states
00:09:58 4.1 Cyprus
00:11:16 4.2 Poland
00:14:10 5 Impact
00:16:30 6 See also



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The 2004 enlargement of the European Union was the largest single expansion of the European Union (EU), in terms of territory, number of states, and population to date; however, it was not the largest in terms of gross domestic product. It occurred on 1 May 2004.
The simultaneous accessions concerned the following countries (sometimes referred to as the "A10" countries): Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Seven of these were part of the former Eastern Bloc (of which three were from the former Soviet Union and four were and still are members of the Central European alliance Visegrád Group), one of the former Yugoslavia (together sometimes referred to as the "A8" countries), and the remaining two were Mediterranean islands and former British colonies. 
Part of the same wave of enlargement was the accession of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, who were unable to join in 2004, but, according to the Commission, constitute part of the fifth enlargement.