Post EU Depression

Serbia started the process of joining the EU by signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement on 29 April 2008 and officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009.

Turkey and Ukraine aspire to join the European Union Russia does not.

Romania hopes that Bosnia and Herzegovina will make progress this year in its top goals, namely, joining NATO's Partnership for Peace and launching negotiations with the European Union on a stabilization and association agreement.

Accession to the European Union (EU) has been a driving force in improving water governance in the region.

Greek Cypriots are using their European Union membership as a weapon to frustrate Turkey s EU ambitions and to block attempts to increase trade between the EU and the island s north.

At the end of 2004, the EU decided to initiate accession talks.

Second, Turkey s government hopes to keep the country s bid to join the European Union moving forward.

The European Union has urged all parties to make renewed efforts to reach an agreement in line with European Union requirements.

This will be particularly true for Bulgarians and Rumanians, who are invited to join the EU in 2007.

The EU accession process has also underpinned a shift in Turkish policy on Iraq.

Some warned even before EU accession that their nations could lose their identity.

Moreover, Kosovo s ambition to join the EU in the next decade means that its treatment of the Serb minority will attract very close and intensive scrutiny.

For the last 43 years, this perspective has been largely defined by Turkey s interest in joining the European Union and by the EU s promise of accession.

Turkey seems to have found an answer, prodded in part by its wish to join the European Union.

We are now part of an alliance of our choice NATO and are bound to join formally the European Union (EU).

He regretted that the European Union, in its resolution, had decided to join the confrontational stance of the United States.

That is certainly true for the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which have either joined the EU or are on their way to membership.

Poland's accession to the European Union on 1 May 2004 is connected with the necessity of acceding to all the conventions and agreements binding for European Union member States.

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.

Serbs also say that it is more important to pretend that Kosovo is part of Serbia than it is to join the EU.

The EU will continue, in its relations with third countries, to stress the importance of these treaties and promote universal adherence.

Thatcher supported Britain s entry into the European Union in order to benefit from free trade, but she forcefully opposed joining the single currency.

It is for these reasons that countries outside the EU want to join.

The European Union regrets the summit's failure to reach agreement on measures for non proliferation and disarmament.

A lot of folks want to join the Union.

The general assembly adopted the final statement of the forum in which it called Estonian women to come out and vote at the referendum on the European Union.

The EU and the US should underscore the need for political change and for candidates who support EU accession as indispensable to Bosnia s economic and political progress.

The European Union is concerned by actions that could prejudge a final status agreement.

In March 2001, the Swiss people refused in a popular vote to start accession negotiations with the EU.

But the new regulation also seriously penalizes subsidiary financing in new EU member and accession countries.

But that agreement did not create a functional Bosnian central government with the capacity to undertake the reforms needed to meet the terms of accession to the European Union.

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

EU accession remains a dominant policy goal for a number of countries in the subregion.

Significant progress has been achieved in several areas of our bilateral cooperation, and Turkey's European Union perspective will further broaden the scope of our relations.

The European Union has 25 member States, while the Schengen Agreement covers 13 EU and two non EU member States (see S 2005 83, para.

According to the European Union

Similarly, countries like Turkey and Ukraine have adjusted their policies in response to their attraction to Europe.

But does Turkey s shift of focus southward and toward regional power status come at the expense of the country s EU ambitions?

Moreover, these populists attack the EU as an elite imposed project, while pro European coalitions have become exhausted, disintegrating in the aftermath of EU accession in 2004.

Many citizens of France s 24 partners in the European Union, or of states that aspire to enter the EU soon, are angry indeed, indignant at France s rejection of the European Union s constitutional treaty.

(e) Preparing national economies for integration into larger entities (for countries seeking admission into the European Union, accession to the acquis communautaire is a prerequisite, which entails subscribing to certain basic governance and public service values)

The EU strongly supports the efforts of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in association with the European Union's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to find an acceptable agreement to rebuild international confidence in Iran's intentions.

The economic implications of improvements in the area should not be underestimated, especially in view of aspirations of Bosnia and Herzegovina to EU membership.

That government has undertaken various important democratic reforms and initiated accession negotiations with the EU.