Union europeenne

The European Union (EU) is a political and economic organization comprising 27 member states, of which France is one of the six founding members since the Treaty of Rome in 1957. The main EU institutions include the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the Council of the European Union. France is part of the Schengen Area, which allows free movement of persons without border checks at internal borders, and of the eurozone, which uses the euro as its common currency. EU membership influences the daily life of French citizens and supplements national citizenship with European citizenship.