nuclear safety and security assistance for EU Candidate States on the basis of the PHARE programme.

The next round of candidate countries is also preparing to adopt the acquis communautaire of EU, including institutional measures for improving integrity, transparency and accountability.

The net contributors to the EU budget were the ones who stood to lose the most.

The leaders of the European Union three and Iran met to seek a way forward.

There is ample evidence from earlier enlargement rounds of the transformative power of the EU to democratize and Europeanize states in advance of their accessions.

Mr. Hoscheit (Luxembourg) (spoke in French) I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union. The acceding countries Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Turkey and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) country Iceland, member of the European Economic Area, align themselves with this declaration.

Notably, economic development and social protection seem to be more poverty reducing in the four European Union candidate countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey) than in the remaining South East European countries.

But the EU will succeed in transposing its laws, norms, and values to accession candidates only if applicant governments take its promises seriously.

This will be a strategy of the whole European Union the Union, its institutions and the member States.

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European Union common approach

The EU's bilateral cooperation

Two of the non EU members, Iceland and Norway, are part of the Nordic Passport Union and are officially classified as states associated with the Schengen activities of the EU.

The organization also undertakes several programmes supporting new member States, European Union candidate countries and western Balkan and former Soviet Union countries and technical support programmes in other countries.

The DOS announced that FR Yugoslavia would seek to join the European Union.

The European Union military mission

Coordination and cooperation with the European Union Special Representative, other European Union actors, and the rest of the international community is well developed.

The founding idea of the EU was that relations between states should be governed by rules, not raw power.

We, like all EU presidencies, will be representing the wider Union interests when we negotiate.

The European Union pre accession programme SAPARD was launched in Estonia in 2001.

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The European Union Police Mission

European Union Police Mission

It is also a priority for the European Union.

The EU s more for more policy has made human rights a cornerstone of its foreign policy toward states in the Union s neighborhood.

Turf battles with NATO intrude, as well as competition between the EU s executive Commission and the member based Council.

These countries are increasing their efforts to prepare for EU admission, and the EU must not shut its doors on them.

As for the EU, the candidacies of Romania and Bulgaria need to be concluded successfully, together with the issue of Turkey's membership aspirations.

With the economic crisis still hitting the continent hard, the merits of belonging to the European Union is being questioned in many European nations.

Negotiations are underway to revise a draft EU constitution.

The second key issue concerns the EU s internal structure.

For the EU, the stakes could not be higher.

It s called Eurostat, the European Union s statistical agency.

EUFOR activities

Activities of the European Union military mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

EUFOR works in unison with the HR EUSR, European Union Police Mission, the European Union Monitoring Mission and the European Commission's assistance programmes to support both the stabilization and association process and mission implementation plan of the Office of the High Representative.

Hungary is now an EU member, and Romania is poised to join (though its membership is a bit delayed because of a lagging domestic reform process).

The European Union Africa Strategy will ensure that aid will flow increasingly towards well governed countries, while paying attention to all vulnerable States.

With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin and Greek scripts.

For the EU, Ukraine continues to be a serious problem.

The same principle ought to guide the EU.

EUPM monitored the court proceedings and verdicts.

The EU should be relieved not to admit such a Serbia.

What will the EU do next? Some counsel retreating to the original six countries as an inner core that creates a federation within the larger union.