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- Since the beginning of the 20th century, the total number of independent nation states in Europe has almost doubled, from 24 countries in 1900 to 45 today.
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Below is a list of sovereign states with the dates of their formation (date of their independence or of their constitution), sorted by continent. This list includes the 195 states which are currently member states of the United Nations or non-member observer states with the United Nations General Assembly .
At present, there are twelve monarchies in Europe, of which six are members of the European Union: Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden, and six are not: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, the United Kingdom and the Vatican City.
Jan 25, 2023 · To find out, Pew Research Center consulted ParlGov – a clearinghouse for cross-national political information – and calculated the median length of government in the 22 parliamentary member states of the European Union, as well as the UK, from the end of World War II through the end of 2022.
List of countries by system of government. This is a list of sovereign states by constitutionally defined de jure system of government. This list does not measure degree of democracy, political corruption, or state capacity of governments.
The EU has welcomed many new countries since the original six members agreed to cooperate after World War II. The largest expansion of the EU was in 2004, when ten countries joined, most of them formerly Communist countries in Eastern Europe.
Lacking a civil society, an independent foreign policy, political opposition, and economic autonomy, the eastern European countries under Soviet control transformed into overt dictatorships by the late 1940s.
