It also moves Serbia closer to European Union membership.

Ever closer union means an EU that moves ineluctably from economic and monetary union to banking union, then to fiscal union, and finally to political union.

Closer ties between Russia and the European Union make sense for similar reasons.

The EU began with the right idea in the Balkans to bring those countries closer to each other by bringing them closer to the Union.

The EU began with the right idea in the Balkans to bring those countries closer to each other by bringing them closer to the Union.

France and Germany were joined at the hip economic cooperation was meant to lead to closer political union.

Since 1979 expenditure on healthcare has been increased significantly to bring it closer to the European Union average.

However, since Austria became a member state of the European Union it has gained closer ties to other European Union economies, reducing its economic dependence on Germany.

Gauck may not have gone far enough At this point, an ever closer union may be a political mirage.

BARCELONA The European Union has brought 28 countries into a closer political and economic union. Paradoxically, it has also made it more feasible to contemplate the breakup of some of those countries.

To avoid this outcome, Europe s leaders must begin designing and implementing strategies aimed at bringing the eurozone closer to a fiscal union.

When European unification was launched, it was thought that ever closer union would establish a community that would protect Europeans from political blackmail.

By cooperating with the rest of the United Kingdom, rather than clashing, Scotland is giving new meaning to the phrase ever closer union.

It's getting closer and closer, and in 20 ...

COPENHAGEN The European Commission recently unveiled long awaited measures to bring neighboring countries in the Mediterranean and the former Soviet Union closer to Europe.

Since Austria became a member state of the European Union, it has gained closer ties to other EU economies, reducing its economic dependence on Germany.

Its only effect will be to allow the eurozone s political leaders to claim that they have created a fiscal union, and thus that they have moved Europe closer to the political union that is their ultimate goal.

As a result, Germany bound itself to the idea of ever closer union even more definitively by pledging to join the common European currency, the euro.

For decades, reconciliation and its most remarkable achievement the Franco German rapprochement was the trademark of the project to create an ever closer union in Europe.

Come closer.

He's closer.

A final way of thinking about the EU is as the ever closer union referred to in the Treaty of Rome and echoed in the Maastricht Treaty.

Unfortunately, the compact is likely to be another example of Europe s subordination of economic reality to politicians desire for bragging rights about progress toward ever closer union.

They worry that politicians and journalists who oppose their strategies for closer political and economic union could yet tip the balance of public opinion against the EU.

It needs not just closer economic ties, but also closer political ties.

But the EU s enlargement in 2004 failed to stop the momentum toward ever closer union. Of the ten countries that joined then, seven are now in the eurozone.

Acknowledging the need for continuing and closer cooperation between the United Nations system and the African Union in peace and security, political, economic, technical, cultural and administrative matters,

Taking their cue from the sacred Rome Treaty s reference to ever closer union, the European Commission s theologians view every crisis as an opportunity to advance their federalist agenda.

Sami got closer.

Closer to Leukemia.

But recent events do spell the end of one version of European integration the vision of an ever closer union producing a federal country that would become a new superpower.

A little bit closer.

6. Stresses the need for closer cooperation and coordination between the African Union and the United Nations, and calls upon the United Nations system to continue to support the African Union on an ongoing basis in accordance with the Cooperation Agreement between the two organizations

Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning yet they heed not and they turn away .

Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning yet they heed not and they turn away .

On the contrary, the sustainable prosperity that would result from that adjustment would create a much healthier long term foundation for continuing the quest for an ever closer union in Europe.

The European Union, for example, has contributed to the innovation systems of developing countries by encouraging an exchange of scientists and closer interaction between universities in developing countries and EU member countries.

A Step Closer to Brexit?

OK, a little bit closer.

Nein merely brings calamity closer.

It's closer than you think.

The consequences of Germany s renunciation of that role are predictable the EU will regress from a union of states moving towards ever closer integration to a weak confederation dominated by conflicting national interests.

Moreover, the European Commission has indicated that it is ready to resume talks aimed at bringing Serbia closer to the European Union as soon as a reform oriented government is formed in Belgrade.

Come in a little bit closer.

Yet closer relations have brought controversy.