<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union" id="mwASY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="2004 enlargement of the European Union">European Union enlargement</a>: The EU announces that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus" id="mwASc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cyprus">Cyprus</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic" id="mwASg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czech Republic">Czechia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia" id="mwASk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Estonia">Estonia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary" id="mwASo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hungary">Hungary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvia" id="mwASs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lithuania">Lithuania</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Malta">Malta</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Poland">Poland</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia" id="mwAS8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovenia" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a> will become members on May 1, 2004.