ATLAS EUROPE - Atlas Permanent de l'Union européenne

Permanent Atlas

of the European Union

With its 27 Member States and its 447 million inhabitants the European Union is the leading economic power in the world.
And yet when people speak of it, they only mention the problems experienced in its construction and it remains largely misunderstood.

This third edition of the Atlas of the European Union is a work of reference that presents the Union, its institutions, each of its Member States and their overseas territories via their history, their culture and their reality. With over 50 maps, original information sheets and synthetic statistics, it offers a unique view of Europe and is accessible to all.

It is a vital tool to get to know and to understand the issues at stake in the 21st century, the current challenges and the opportunities for Europe and the euro in a world in transformation.

Written by experts at the Robert Schuman Foundation – one of the very foremost think-tanks devoted to European integration – the Atlas provides easy to find information on Europe.

Innovative because it is permanent, meaning that via free access to the website www.atlas-permanent.eu, its content is regularly updated so that everyone can access the most recent data on an ever-evolving Europe at any time.

With the Editions Marie B, the Robert Schuman Foundation has published the 3rd English edition of the Permanent Atlas of the European Union, a book full of geopolitical information.

The information in this Atlas is regularly updated. To access it, enter your email address below and the ISBN of the book.

France - mise à jour le 21st July 2023

European Union - mise à jour le 18th July 2023

Euro Area - mise à jour le 18th July 2023

Zoom

Cyprus

The island of Cyprus is at the heart of one of the oldest frozen conflicts in the eastern Mediterranean. Indeed, this country that was made into a kingdom in the Middle Ages, dominated by Turkey and then by the UK, before becoming independent in 1960 and joining the EU in 2004 has a population which is 2/3 Greek and one third Turkish. Power sharing between the two communities was planned for as soon as the island became independent, but in 1974, following a coup that brought to power a regime that supported Cyprus’s annexation to Greece, the Turks invaded the northern part of the island. In 1983 they proclaimed the “Republic of Northern Cyprus” acknowledged only by them. In 2002, a draft project put forward by the UN was rejected by the Greek Cypriots. Negotiations started again in 2010 but are still ongoing.

Permanent Atlas of the European Union, 30 information sheets and analyses to learn everything there is to know about the European Union. .