<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . The specific problem is: dead links and outdated information . Please help improve this article if you can . (June 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards . The specific problem is: dead links and outdated information . Please help improve this article if you can . (June 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> This is a list of European Union member states, their forms of government and their parliaments . The European Union (EU) is a sui generis supranational union of democratic states . At a European Council Summit held in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 June and 22 June 1993, the European Union defined the Copenhagen criteria regarding the conditions a candidate country has to fulfill to be considered eligible for accession to the European Union: </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> Membership criteria require that the candidate country must have achieved: <Ul> <Li> stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities; </Li> <Li> the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union; </Li> <Li> the ability to take on the obligations of membership including adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union . </Li> </Ul> </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

The european union is an example of what style of government