# Umoja wa Ulaya

| **Umoja wa UlayaEuropean Union (EU)* |
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Bendera |
| **Kaulimbiu:** "United in diversity" ("Umoja katika utofauti") |
| **Wimbo wa taifa:** "Ode to Joy" |
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Mahali pa Umoja wa Ulaya |
|  **Mji mkuu** | Brussels (de facto) |
| **Mji mkubwa** | Berlin Bahari ya Atlantiki, Bahari ya Mediterania, Bahari ya Kaskazini, Bahari ya Baltiki |
| **Lugha rasmi** | Kiholanzi, Kiingereza, Kifaransa, Kijerumani, Kihispania, Kiitaliano, na lugha nyingine 18 |
| **Lugha ya taifa** | Lugha za mataifa wanachama |
| **Serikali** | Muungano wa kisiasa na kiuchumi |
|  • Rais wa Baraza la Ulaya | Charles Michel |
|  • Rais wa Tume ya Ulaya | Ursula von der Leyen |
| **Muungano** |
|  • Mkataba wa Maastricht | 1993 |
|  • Kuanzishwa kwa Euro | 1999 |
|  • Brexit (Uingereza kujiondoa) | 2020 |
| **Eneo** |  |
|  • Jumla | km2 4,233,255 (ya 7) |
|  • Maji (asilimia) | 3% |
| **Idadi ya watu** |  |
|  • Kadirio la 2025 | ▲ 448,400,000 |
| **PLT (PPP)** | Kadirio la 2025 |
|  • Jumla | ▲ $29.005 trilioni |
|  • Kwa kila mtu | ▲ $64,080 |
| **PLT (Kawaida)** | Kadirio la 2025 |
|  • Jumla | ▲ $20.287 trilioni |
|  • Kwa kila mtu | ▲ $43,194 |
| **HDI** (2021) | ▲ 0.899 (HDI) |
| **Gini** (2022) | 29.6 |
| **Sarafu** | Euro |
| **Majira ya saa** | UTC+1 CET / CEST (UTC+2) |
| **Upande wa magari** | Kushoto na kulia (inategemea nchi) |
| **Msimbo wa simu** | ++3 , +4 |
| **Tovuti rasmi**:  |
| **Tanbihi**: *Data inatokana na Jumla au wastani wa data ya mataifa ya Umoja wa Ulaya* |

**Umoja wa Ulaya** (kifupisho: **EU**) ni muungano wa kisiasa na wa kiuchumi wa nchi 27 za Ulaya, baada ya Ufalme wa Muungano kujitoa tarehe 31 Januari 2020, tukio la kwanza la namna hiyo. Ulianzishwa mwaka 1991 juu ya msingi wa Jumuiya ya Kiuchumi ya Ulaya.

Shabaha kuu zilikuwa kujenga uchumi wa pamoja, kuboresha maisha ya watu wa Ulaya na kuzuia vita kati ya nchi za Ulaya.

Nchi 19 za Umoja huo hutumia pesa moja ya Euro.

Nchi nyingi za Umoja zimepatana kufungua mipaka yao bila vizuizi kwa wakazi wote.

European Commission (Brussels)
## Historia

Jumuiya ya Kiuchumi ya Ulaya ilibadilisha jina lake mwaka 1992 kufuatana na mikataba ya Maastricht kuwa Umoja wa Ulaya.

Nchi wanachama zilipatana kujenga siasa ya pamoja ya kiuchumi, kifedha, kisheria na katika mambo ya nje.

Mapatano ya Schengen ilifungua mipaka ili wakazi wa nchi hizo waweze kusafiri bila pasipoti wala vibali.

Nchi 10 tena zilijiunga na Umoja wa Ulaya mwaka 2004. Mbili zaidi ziliingia 2007 na Kroatia mwaka 2013.

* Quai d'Orsay (Paris)
* Euro Tower (Frankfurt)
* Donald Tusk (2017)
* Cecilia Malmström

## Demografia

Jumla ya wakazi ni milioni 447 (mwanzoni mwa 2020), sawa na 5.8% za watu wote duniani. Kuna miji 15 yenye watu zaidi ya milioni moja kila mmojawapo, kuanzia Paris ambayo inazidi milioni 10.

### Lugha

Upande wa lugha, lugha rasmi ni 24, lakini lugha inayotumika zaidi ni Kiingereza, kinachoweza kuzungumzwa na 51% za wakazi wote, ingawa ni lugha ya kwanza ya 1% tu. Lugha nyingine ambazo ni za kwanza kwa wananchi wengi ni: Kijerumani (18%), Kifaransa (13%) na Kiitalia (12%). Pia kuna lugha 150 hivi za kieneo.

### Dini

Upande wa dini, wakazi wengi ni Wakristo (71.6%), hasa Wakatoliki (45.3%), Waprotestanti 11.1% na Waorthodoksi 9.6%. Waislamu ni 1.8%. Wafuasi wa dini nyingine ni 2.6%. Wengine 24% hawana dini au ni Wakanamungu.

## Uhuru wa kuhama

Kila mtu mwenye uraia wa nchi ya Umoja anaruhusiwa kuhamia nchi yoyote nyingine na kufanya kazi au biashara huko bila vibali vya pekee.

Vilevile bidhaa zote zinazotengenezwa kote katika Umoja wa Ulaya zinaweza kuuzwa katika kila nchi. Hii ni sababu ya kuwa na sheria za pamoja zinazotawala masharti ya bidhaa na uzalishaji.

## Utawala na Serikali

### Halmashauri ya Ulaya

Halmashauri hii ni mkutano wa viongozi wa serikali za nchi wanachama. Wanakutana mara mbili kwa mwaka na kutoa maazimo muhimu.

Nafasi ya uraisi hubadilika kila baada ya miezi 6. Ufini ilishika uraisi kati ya Julai 2006 hadi Desemba 2006, ikafuatiliwa na Ujerumani tangu Januari hadi Juni 2007.

### Baraza za mawaziri

Katika baraza hizi mawaziri ya Kilimo, Sheria, Mambo ya Nje hukutana na kupanga siasa ya pamoja.

### Kamati ya Ulaya

Hii ni kamati ya utawala inayotekeleza maazimio ya Halmashauri na bunge. Kuna makamishna 24 na mwenyekiti. Inaelekea kuwa serikali lakini haina madaraka ya serikali bado.

### Bunge la Ulaya

Bunge la Umojwa wa Ulaya huko Brussels.
Picha ya pamoja wakati wa kusaini mkataba wa Lisboa tarehe 13 Desemba 2007.
Bunge la Ulaya lina wabunge 751 wanaochaguliwa na wananchi kila baada ya miaka mitano.

## Wanachama

Map showing the member states of the European Union (clickable)
#### Wanachama tangu 1958 (waanzilishi)

* Ubelgiji
* Ufaransa
* Ujerumani
* Italia
* Luxemburg
* Uholanzi

#### Wanachama tangu 1973

* Denmark
* Ueire
* Ufalme wa Muungano (hadi 2020 [Brexit])

#### Mwanachama tangu 1981

* Ugiriki

#### Wanachama tangu 1986

* Ureno
* Hispania

#### Wanachama tangu 1995

* Austria
* Ufini
* Uswidi

#### Wanachama tangu 2004

* Kupro
* Ucheki
* Estonia
* Hungaria
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Malta
* Polandi
* Slovakia
* Slovenia

#### Wanachama tangu 2007

* Bulgaria
* Romania

#### Wanachama tangu 2013

* Kroatia

#### Nchi zinazoomba uanachama

* Uturuki
* Masedonia Kaskazini
* Montenegro
* Albania
* Serbia

## Jeshi la Uropa/Ulaya

## Tazama pia

* Mkataba wa Schengen
* Umoja wa Forodha wa Ulaya

## Marejeo

* Berend, Ivan T. (2017). *The Contemporary Crisis of the European Union: Prospects for the Future*. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-24419-1.
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* Gareis, Sven; Hauser, Gunther; Kernic, Franz, whr. (2013). *The European Union – A Global Actor?*. Leverkusen, Germany: Barbara Budrich Publishers. ISBN 978-3-8474-0040-0.
* Grinin, L.; Korotayev, A.; Tausch, A. (2016). *Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery*. Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer International Publishing. ISBN 978-3-319-17780-9.
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* McAuley, James, "A More Perfect Union?" (review of Luuk van Middelaar, *Alarums and Excursions: Improving Politics on the European Stage*, translated from the Dutch by Liz Waters, Agenda, 2019, 301 pp.; and Stéphanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, and Antoine Vauchez, *How to Democratize Europe*, translated from the French by Paul Dermine, Marc LePain, and Patrick Camiller, Harvard University Press, 2019, 209 pp.), *The New York Review of Books*, vol. LXVI, no. 13 (15 August 2019), pp. 46–48. James McAuley writes: "There was never a single moment that marked the definitive establishment of the European Union, which... has continued to define itself since World War II. The major turning points have all been quiet steps on the way to further economic integration while preserving national sovereignty. Today there is only an incomplete monetary union without a real political contract to manage it... [Nevertheless, the Union's] various peoples have grown remarkably closer... The European Union now has open borders, a single market from Portugal to the Baltics, and more or less monthly meetings of member state leaders [the European Council]. What's more, those member states are now closer to each other than they are to the United States... [T]his transformation has occurred informally and organically... Robust supranational politics are taking root in Europe... Luuk van Middelaar writes: 'What unites us as Europeans on this continent is bigger and stronger than anything that divides us.'" (pp. 47–48.)
* McCormick, John (2007). *The European Union: Politics and Policies* (tol. la 5th). Boulder, CO: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-4202-3.
* Mount, Ferdinand, "Why We Go to War", *London Review of Books*, vol. 41, no. 11 (6 June 2019), pp. 11–14. "Historians have tended to weave their narratives around [...] high-flown themes: the struggle to maintain the balance of power, the struggles against fascism and communism, against the French Revolution or German militarism. In reality, most large wars have contained within them a violent and persistent economic conflict. [p. 12.] Not for one second do [the U.K.'s Brexiteers] pause to think how hard-won [Europe's economic integration and peace, within the European Union, have] been. They are the feckless children of seventy years of peace." [p. 14.]
* Pinder, John; Usherwood, Simon (2013). *The European Union: A Very Short Introduction* (tol. la 3rd). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-968169-3. excerpt and text search
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* Smith, Charles (2007). *International Trade and Globalisation* (tol. la 3rd). Stocksfield: Anforme Ltd. ISBN 978-1-905504-10-7.
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* Steiner, Josephine; Woods, Lorna; Twigg-Flesner, Christian (2006). *EU Law* (tol. la 9th). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-927959-3.
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