The EU wants to avoid another Cyprus, where a candidate country partly occupies a member country.

France is not the only EU country with an unpopular leader.

As such, EUFOR buttresses the EU integrated efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina and helps enable the country to progress towards EU integration by its own efforts.

But everything is relative Germany s trend growth rate is just 1.1 , and the country has been the slowest growing EU country since 1995.

It was assumed that Cyprus should be united when the country joined the EU in 2004.

Under the Treaty of Rome, Ukraine, as a European country, qualifies as a potential EU member.

Typically enough, no EU country has mentioned Taiwan as a reason not to resume arms exports.

In the worst case, images of violent protests in one EU country might incite others to violence.

Clearly, Turkey is a key country for the EU in terms of securing stability and prosperity in its immediate neighborhood. Yet accession negotiations between Turkey and the EU have been deadlocked, owing to prevailing political attitudes in some EU member states.

The EU would also need a banking union to make credit available on equal terms in every country.

In 2011, citizens of the new EU member states made up 13 of the immigrants entering the country.

Less than one in 10 Croats (whose country could be joining the EU in the near future) believes that their country is heading in the right direction.

Though country to country engagement with Asia s rising powers may be tempting, and while China often prefers bilateral dealings, renationalization of EU members foreign policies would be counterproductive.

But the road to EU membership involves painful sacrifice, so each country should be judged on its own merits.

The EU needs a comprehensive regional approach, focusing on the remaining steps that would lead each country towards membership.

AGREES that the EU action to support the ICPD agenda should be pursued both at global and country level.

New EU Battlegroups should be strengthened through regular training and certification, preferably using NATO standards, and the EU Military Committee should hold regular Battlegroup conferences to solicit country contributions to future formations.

If I go to another country in the EU as a tourist, are there any steps I have to take?

Any country can leave the EU, and thus the eurozone, when the perceived burden of its obligations becomes too onerous.

Poland is a free country, a member of NATO and of the EU, while the Soviet Union is no more.

Among these, young Europeans are the most motivated (a half million EU young people are already studying in another country).

There will be 25 Commissioners, one for each EU member country, whereas previously big countries had two and small countries one.

Many EU member States contribute to the NATO led International Security Assistance Force and run provincial reconstruction teams throughout the country.

All of this is happening not in some remote country, far removed from civilization. It is happening in an EU member state.

From now on, presidential appointees will rule a country that is as complex and multi national as the EU or the US.

As an acceding country to the European Union (EU), we will take on board new responsibilities in the field of development policy.

Mr. Carvell (United Kingdom) said that, as his country currently held the presidency of the EU, he would like to consult fellow EU member States before giving a considered response to the concerns that had been expressed.

Nevertheless, the United States, Japan, and Europe (represented perhaps by the EU Commission), must be there on the rich country side China, India, and Brazil must be there on the developing country side.

But Ukraine is also a European country, which gives it the right to apply for EU membership an aspiration voiced by Ukraine s leaders.

But, even if these shortcomings were removed, Turkey should still not be admitted to the EU, because it is not a European country.

These reforms also aimed to put the country on a more secure macroeconomic footing and to pave the way for eventual EU accession.

It would also establish a political, economic, and legal reform plan for the country, supported by roughly 60 state agencies in EU member countries.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted that there should be no joint EU guarantee each country would have to take care of its own institutions.

In the words of former French President Valéry Giscard d Estaing, one of the authors of the EU Constitution, Turkey is not a European country.

It was also recommended that the EU should provide appropriate technical assistance to allow developing country producers to use the technology for substitutes effectively.

But the EU is not a country it is an incomplete association of sovereign states that will not survive a decade or more of stagnation.

Above all, every government that successfully led its country into the EU had to adopt often under pressure and hastily a range of unpopular steps.

Indeed, it is striking that the majority of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina believe that their leaders are not interested in their country joining the EU.

In other words, the EU should develop a policy under which cutting off supplies to one member country is equivalent to cutting off supplies to all.

Poland, a country that belongs to New Europe, is repaying the EU with a legitimacy that it had gained from Europe during its post communist transition.

Bulgaria, as the closest EU country to Syria, is seeing more than its fair share of the average 5,000 refugees that are fleeing Syria every day.

Not only for the EU and for a united stance against the horrors of the world today, but also for the country I grew up in.

The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

My passionate hope is that Turkey becomes an EU member, because a country that is Muslim, democratic, and overwhelmingly young could strengthen the Union in vital ways.

The lesson is that Commissioners should focus on their specific tasks, bearing in mind the interests of the EU rather than those of their country of origin.