It also moves Serbia closer to European Union membership.

One usually unstated factor is a fear of Turkish membership in the Union.

Similarly, when Morocco quit the OAU in 1984, it dreamed of European Union membership.

Yet the fear remains that membership in the Union will unleash a new human tide.

ASEM membership comes from the European Union and South East and North East Asian countries.

That default will be due in large part to its membership in the European Monetary Union.

Turkish membership in the Union would also greatly ease the assimilation of the EU s own Muslim minorities.

Ms. Mladineo (Croatia), associating her delegation with the statement by made the European Union, said that Croatia had started negotiations for full membership in the Union.

Even in larger countries, the costs and benefits of membership in a currency union are under renewed consideration.

In implementing United Nations Security Council resolutions, Estonia is bound by the requirements of its European Union membership.

Turkey is now, finally, negotiating with the European Commission the terms of its possible membership in the European Union.

Turkey was wholly unjustified in blockading a neighbouring country after being granted a mandate for European Union membership negotiations.

Women are scarcely or insufficiently represented in decision making bodies, and invisible at the top of the Trade Union, although they make 45 of the total Trade Union membership.

My government has pledged its willingness live up to the legal norms that are the core of European Union membership.

But this option is all but foreclosed, because union membership or organizing can lead to dismissal, blacklisting, violence, or worse.

But in any event, it was too late to protest the ten Eastern states had already been granted membership of the Union.

The issue is raised how long will the women pay their Union membership fee to associations which do not recognize their interests.

Noting the progress made by the countries of the Stabilization and Association Process in fulfilling the criteria for membership in the European Union and, in this context, the first entry into force of a Stabilization and Association Agreement, as well as Croatia's becoming a candidate country for membership in the European Union,

Indeed, our pro EU sentiments may be all the stronger because our membership in the Union, like our freedom, is so comparatively new.

Next, we applied for admission to NATO and prepared for European Union membership, with all of the institutional reforms that these goals implied.

WASHINGTON, DC The European Union already faces considerable risks concerning its structure, uncertain economic recovery, north south imbalances, and British ambivalence about membership.

Instead, NATO expanded to Russia s doorstep, the European Union barred its doors, and membership in the World Trade Organization seemed out of reach.

The organization has three kinds of membership affiliates, general membership and life membership.

Within months, if not weeks, of realizing the long sought goal of European Union membership, a wave of political instability surged through Central Europe.

In recent decades the most rapid expansions in membership have been within Eastern Europe (especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union) and India.

We awaited that development with anticipation, and we are particularly pleased that the road to Croatia's full European Union membership is now wide open.

In view of the decisions adopted at the African Union and CARICOM summit meetings, we are ready to continue our dialogue with the African Union and CARICOM, as well as the United Nations membership at large.

Slovenia is in the European Union, Croatia is very close to membership, and all of the region s other countries have started along the EU path.

Both government and opposition should remain steadfastly focused on Europe, despite the obstacles that the European Union has placed in Turkey s way during membership negotiations.

Beyond membership in the European Union, France is also involved in many joint European projects such as Airbus, the Galileo positioning system and the Eurocorps.

He was a proponent of Norwegian membership in the European Union, advocated strong collaborative efforts with the Conservative Party and even the Norwegian Progress Party.

It can accommodate, through variable geometry, the aspirations and interests of the majority of the membership, including regional groups such as the African Union (AU).

With assistance from the European Union, the World Bank and the Nordic Investment Bank, Estonia completed most of its preparations for European Union membership by the end of 2002 and now has one of the strongest economies of the new member states of the European Union.

Membership in the European Union has resulted in the proliferation of ties to Europe at many levels, as well as a major influx of EU money.

For Europe, the Arab Spring should refocus attention on an issue largely ignored in recent months the benefits of Turkey s full membership in the European Union.

Foreign workers therefore had the same rights as Icelanders to work, education, social and medical services, the minimum wage, trade union membership, housing, and so on.

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The countries that faced similar problems in other parts of the world always combined fiscal contractions with currency devaluations, which membership in a monetary union rules out.

The unemployed workers of Greece, Portugal, and Spain do not move to faster growing regions of Europe because of differences in language, history, religion, union membership, etc.

Serbia officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009, and received candidate status on 1 March 2012, following a delay in December 2011.

Building a Ukraine worthy of EU membership will not be easy, cheap, or fast. But, like the Union itself, it will be built and it will be done.

The European Union has been a positive force in promoting rights in those countries aspiring to membership, but it has not demonstrated a capacity to exercise influence worldwide.

Armenia is also an active member of the international sports community, with full membership in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

The Brčko District union agrees on plans, coordinates and implements tasks and activities of common interest for its membership, starting from the principle of equality, mutuality and solidarity.

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