Dog Ages & Dog Stages. It's important to transition from the mentality of âthey diedâ to âlet me tell you how he really lived.â This is true of people and pets.
There are currently 34 members of the OECD. The list includes 21 of the 28 European Union member states. The states not in the OECD are Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, and Romania.n 2003, the OECD established a working group headed by Japan's Ambassador to the OECD Seiichiro Noboru to work out a strategy for the enlargement and co-operation with non-members.
The European Union, as it is now known, now consists of 25 member states and presidency of the organisation changes annually. Britain, Ireland and Denmark joined in 1973, Greece joined in 1981, Spain and Portugal in 1986, Austria, Finland and Sweden in 1995. On 1 May 2004, 10 new states from Eastern and Southern Europe joined the community. The EU is now the world's largest trading bloc by population, with about 455 million citizens.