<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatia" id="mwAmI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Croatia">Croatia</a> becomes the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession_of_Croatia_to_the_European_Union" id="mwAmM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Accession of Croatia to the European Union">28th member</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" id="mwAmQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="European Union">European Union</a>.<sup about="#mwt144" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"}}' id="cite_ref-25" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_1#cite_note-25" id="mwAmU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 25;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAmY">[25]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-25"><cite about="#mwt141" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFBilefsky2013">Bilefsky, Dan (2013-07-01). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/world/europe/croatia-joins-european-union.html" id="mwCak" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Joyous Croatia Joins Europe Amid a Crisis"</a>. <i id="mwCao">The New York Times</i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISSN_(identifier)" id="mwCas" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a><span id="mwCaw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331" id="mwCa0" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">0362-4331</a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCa4">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCa8">2022-09-10</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt141" class="Z3988" id="mwCbA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=Joyous+Croatia+Joins+Europe+Amid+a+Crisis&amp;rft.date=2013-07-01&amp;rft.issn=0362-4331&amp;rft.aulast=Bilefsky&amp;rft.aufirst=Dan&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2013%2F07%2F02%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fcroatia-joins-european-union.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+1"></span></span>