On the occasion of Romania´s entering the great European family, Romfilatelia,
the specialized company in editing and trading Romanian postage stamps, introduces
into circulation the postage stamp issue Romania in the European Union.
Romania was the first country in the Central and Eastern Europe to establish official relationships with the European Community. In 1967, negotiations were started for the signing of a series of technical-sectorial agreements and, later, in 1974, a bilateral treaty was signed, followed by an agreement regarding industrial products, signed in 1980. In 1990, diplomatic relationships with the European Union were established by signing a Trade and Cooperation Agreement and, in 1993, Romania´s EU Association Agreement was signed. In 1995, Romania lodged the accession request to the Union, followed by the decision of the European Council of Helsinki, in 1999, for the opening of negotiations for Romania’s accession and for the official launching, in February 2000, of the negotiation process. After going through numerous stages of the accession process, in December 2003, the European Council of Brussels established Romania’s accession calendar as follows: completion of the negotiations in 2004 and signing, in 2005, of the Accession Treaty, and the actual accession on the 1st of January 2007. On the 25th of April 2005, in Luxembourg, Romania’s Accession Treaty to the European Union was signed. Then followed the ratifications of the Treaty by the parliaments of the 25 member states of the European Union, by the end of November 2006.
