Austria in the European Union: Vienna, the euro, nine states and twenty seats in the European Parliament

Background

Austria's capital is Vienna and its official European Union language is German.
It has been a member of the European Union since 1 January 1995, has used the euro since 1 January 1999 and has been in the Schengen area since 1 December 1997.
It is a federal parliamentary republic of nine states, with a president as head of state and a chancellor as head of government.
Its Federal Parliament has two chambers, the directly elected lower house or Nationalrat and the upper house or Bundesrat.
Austria holds 20 seats in the European Parliament and has 12 representatives each on the European Economic and Social Committee and on the European Committee of the Regions.
Its area is 83,882 square kilometres and its population 9,197,213.
It ranks fifth in the European Union for gross domestic product per capita, at 45,700 euros, and accounts for 2.8 per cent of the Union's total gross domestic product.
Austria has held the presidency of the Council of the European Union three times, from July to December 1998, from January to June 2006 and from July to December 2018.
Its member of the European Commission is Magnus Brunner, responsible for internal affairs and migration.