European Union Membership Directions: Choose different colors for each date on the Map Key. Using your key, label and color the countries on the map according to when they joined the European Union. 1957 France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg 1973 Ireland, United Kingdom, Denmark 1981-86 Portugal, Spain, Greece 1995 Sweden, Finland, Austria 2004 Poland, Czech Republic, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Estonia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta 2007-13 Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia 2016 Draw a red X over the country that left the EU. © Brain Wrinkles