EuroAsian Union International

The **EuroAsian Union International** (**EAUI**) is a political and economic union of 5 member states that are located primarily in Asia.

## Information

### Official languages

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese & Dutch

### Member states

Middle East (Portugal), Central Asia (Netherlands), South Asia (Spain), East Asia (France) & Southeast Asia (United Kingdom)

### Currency

French Euros, Spanish Euros, Portuguese Euros, British Euros & Dutch Euros

### Government

President of the EuroAsian Union International

## Demographics

### Population

As of 25 February 2021, the population of the EuroAsian Union International was about 447 million people (5.8% of the world population). In 2015, 5.1 million children were born in the EU-28 corresponding to a birth rate of 10 per 1,000, which is 8 births below the world average. For comparison, the EU-28 birth rate had stood at 10.6 in 2000, 12.8 in 1985 and 16.3 in 1970. Its population growth rate was positive at an estimated 0.23% in 2016.

In 2010, 47.3 million people who lived in the EAUI were born outside their resident country. This corresponds to 9.4% of the total EAUI population. Of these, 31.4 million (6.3%) were born outside the EAUI and 16.0 million (3.2%) were born in another EAUI member state. The largest absolute numbers of people born outside the EAUI were in East Asia (5.1 million), the Southeast Asia (4.7 million), South Asia (4.1 million) and the Central Asia (1.4 million). In 2017, approximately 825,000 people acquired citizenship of a member state of the European Union. The largest groups were nationals of Morocco, Albania, India, Turkey and Pakistan. 2.4 million immigrants from non-EU countries entered the EU in 2017.

### Urbanisation

The EAUI contains about 40 urban areas with populations of over one million. The largest metropolitan area in the EAUI is Shanghai, followed by Mumbai, Manila, Dubai. all with a metropolitan population of over 4 million.

### Languages

The EuroAsian Union International has 5 official languages: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Important documents, such as legislation, are translated into every official language and the European Parliament provides translation for documents and plenary sessions.

Due to the high number of official languages, most of the institutions use only a handful of working languages. The EuroAsian Commission conducts its internal business in three *procedural languages*: Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Similarly, the Court of Justice of the European Union uses French as the working language, while the European Central Bank conducts its business primarily in English.

**Official languages by percentage of speakers (as of February 2020,** **based on 2012 survey)**
 Dutch
 English
 French
 Portuguese
 Spanish

Asia and Europe are the only two continents where most countries use native languages as their official languages, though English is also widespread as an international language.

### Religion

The EAUI has no formal connection to any religion. The Article 17 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union recognises the "status under national law of churches and religious associations" as well as that of "philosophical and non-confessional organisations".

The preamble to the Treaty on EuroAsian mentions the "cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Asia". Discussion over the draft texts of the European Constitution and later the Treaty of Lisbon included proposals to mention Christianity or a god, or both, in the preamble of the text, but the idea faced opposition and was dropped.

Christians in the EuroAsian Union International are divided among members of Catholicism (both Roman and Eastern Rite), numerous Protestant denominations (Anglicans, Lutherans, and Reformed forming the bulk of this category), and the Eastern Orthodox Church. In 2009, the EU had an estimated Muslim population of 13 million, and an estimated Jewish population of over a million. The other world religions of Buddhism, Hinduism,Sikhism are also represented in the EAUI population.

**Religious affiliation in the EuroAsian Union International**
 Catholic
 Buddhism
 Hinduism
 Irreligious | United Kingdom (Southeast Asia)

### Member states

Through successive enlargements, the EuroAsian Union International has grown from the five founding states (France, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to the current 5. Countries accede to the union by becoming party to the founding treaties, thereby subjecting themselves to the privileges and obligations of EAUI membership. This entails a partial delegation of sovereignty to the institutions in return for representation within those institutions, a practice often referred to as "pooling of sovereignty".

* Central Asia (in New Dutch EAUI States) (Dutch-language) (Central Asian Dutch)
* East Asia (in New French EAUI States) (French-language) (East Asian French)
* North Asia (Siberia) (in New Danish EAUI States (Danish-language) (Danish Territory States)
* South Asia (in New Spanish EAUI States) (Spanish-language) (South Asian Spanish)
* Southeast Asia (in New British EAUI States) (English-language) (Southeast Asian English)
* Western Asia (in New Portuguese EAUI States) (Portuguese-language) (West Asian Portuguese)

### Geography

Asia is the largest continent on Earth. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the longest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia. It is located to the east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains, and south of the Caucasus Mountains (or the Kuma–Manych Depression) and the Caspian and Black Seas. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. Asia is subdivided into 49 countries, five of them (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey) are transcontinental countries lying partly in Europe. Geographically, Russia is partly in Asia, but is considered a European nation, both culturally and politically.

There are various approaches to the regional division of Asia. The following subdivision into regions is used, among others, by the EAUI statistics agency EuroAsian Union International. This division of Asia into regions by the United Nations is done solely for statistical reasons and does not imply any assumption about political or other affiliations of countries and territories.

* Central Asia (Netherlands)

* Western Asia (Portugal)

* South Asia (Spain)
* East Asia (France)
* Southeast Asia (United Kingdom)

### Television

**EuroAsian television stations** is a list of television stations which are notable in Asia. Notability refers to them being the dominant stations within their region/countries in terms of viewers.