1990 Evento Età contemporanea Lituania
Independence restored
On 11 March Lithuania is the first republic to leave the USSR.
La costruzione europea non è cominciata nel 1950. Questo filo unisce l’eredità antica, la matrice giudaico-cristiana e l’Unione contemporanea.
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1990 Evento Età contemporanea Lituania
On 11 March Lithuania is the first republic to leave the USSR.
1990 Evento Età contemporanea Germania
A year after the Wall fell, the five eastern Länder join the Federal Republic and the European Community.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Croazia
The declaration of 25 June opens four years of war on Croatian territory.
1991 Guerra Età contemporanea Slovenia
Slovenia leaves Yugoslavia after the shortest of the decade’s conflicts.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Lettonia
After the Singing Revolution, Latvia regains its sovereignty.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Estonia
On 20 August Estonia again proclaims its sovereignty.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Ucraina
More than 90 % of voters approve leaving the USSR on 1 December.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Albania
After forty-seven years of isolation, pluralism is restored.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Macedonia del Nord
The only Yugoslav republic to separate without war.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Moldavia
The republic proclaims sovereignty on 27 August, days after the Moscow putsch.
1991 Evento Età contemporanea Bielorussia
The Belavezha Accords, signed in Belarus, formalise the dissolution of the USSR.
1992 Trattato Costruzione europea
The European Union is created, with European citizenship and the timetable for the single currency.
1992 Guerra Età contemporanea Bosnia ed Erzegovina
The siege of Sarajevo lasts 1,425 days; Srebrenica is recognised as genocide.
1992 Evento Età contemporanea Moldavia
A ceasefire freezes a de facto secession that has lasted more than thirty years.
1992 Evento Costruzione europea Svizzera
The people reject the European Economic Area; the bilateral path prevails.
1993 Testo Età contemporanea Andorra
Andorra becomes a sovereign state under the rule of law and joins the UN the same year.
1993 Evento Età contemporanea Slovacchia
On 1 January the Slovak Republic is born of a negotiated, peaceful separation.
1993 Evento Età contemporanea Belgio
The fourth state reform enshrines in the Constitution a federal state of communities and regions.
1993 Evento Età contemporanea Cechia Slovacchia
Czechia and Slovakia separate peacefully on 1 January, a rare case in Europe.
1994 Evento Costruzione europea Norvegia
52.2 % of Norwegians reject Union entry; the EEA takes over.
1995 Evento Età contemporanea Bosnia ed Erzegovina
Peace establishes a two-entity state whose architecture still governs the country.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea Svezia
With Austria and Finland, Sweden joins the EU; it will reject the euro by referendum in 2003.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea Liechtenstein
The principality joins the European internal market without entering the Union.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea Austria
Austria joins the EU by referendum and becomes a pivot towards Central Europe.
1995 Evento Costruzione europea
Austria, Finland and Sweden bring the Union to fifteen members.
1998 Trattato Età contemporanea Irlanda
Thirty years of conflict end; the Irish border becomes invisible.
1999 Guerra Età contemporanea Kosovo
After months of conflict, the territory passes under United Nations administration.
1999 Trattato Costruzione europea Turchia
The Helsinki European Council recognises Türkiye as a candidate country.
1999 Evento Costruzione europea
Eleven currencies are irrevocably fixed; the European Central Bank takes up its functions.