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So any negative impact on the euro from rapid accession to EMU would at worst amount to little more than a rounding error.
As European Central Bank data shows, average per capita GDP in the accession candidates is 44% of the eurozone level.
More important, long-lasting economic growth does not depend on the type of exchange rate - whether flexible or fixed (EMU) - while early accession will speed up crucial reforms.
With more realistic expectations, it achieved results: the New START arms control treaty, tougher sanctions on Iran, cooperation on transportation to and from Afghanistan, and Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
The secular opposition’s accession to power on the back of a tank might feed the Islamists’ rage for years to come.
Indeed, there are already signs of countries not even in the European Union, notably Iceland and Switzerland, contemplating accession as a step toward adopting the euro and resolving their financial dilemma.
The export portion increased the most – by nearly six-fold, from 6% in 1980 to a pre-crisis peak of 35% in 2007 – as new capacity and infrastructure, low-cost labor, and accession to the World Trade Organization made China the world’s greatest beneficiary of accelerating globalization and surging trade flows.
That has given them a common destination as well, both politically (accession to the European Union) and in terms of their security (through NATO).
Sarkozy has also fully integrated into France’s approach to Europe a reckoning with the new balance of power within the European Union following the accession of Eastern European states.
With its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001, China was forced to reduce its tariff protections by one-half.
At the heart of the proposals is EU support in the UN Security Council for a resolution that “either (1) calls for new negotiations and sets a mandatory deadline for the completion of an agreement to establish a two-state solution, or (2) creates a greater equivalence between the Israeli and Palestinian parties, including through recognition of a Palestinian state and strong support for Palestine accession to international treaties and organizations.”
And, while China’s repeated reduction of export quotas for rare earths may not be contrary to WTO rules per se, particularly because the WTO recognizes environmental considerations as a basis for restricting supply (China’s own justification), it remains doubtful whether China’s export regime is really in line with the WTO accession protocol to which it agreed.
Turkey’s accession talks with the EU have ground almost to a halt, owing partly to outright hostility against Turkey in some EU member states.
He wanted to demonstrate to his Western partners that Georgia needed NATO protection from Russia, and that accession was therefore urgent.
For Leon Trotsky, Stalin’s accession to power after Lenin’s death was a counter-revolution.
Add to that a polarized and dysfunctional Congress, and the timeframe for concluding a US-China investment treaty is beginning to appear eerily reminiscent of the decade-long process that was required for Chinese accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.
As a German, I am happy that German-Polish relations have never been better than they have been since Poland’s accession to the EU.
Again, it was Poland that paved the way, reminding the old member states from the outset of the accession process that it was not an outsider or a poor relative in need of charity, but rather a source of inspiration in the European integration process, its impact delayed only by World War II and its aftermath.
But these bodies must not be seen as substitutes for the far more comprehensive accession process, which only the EU itself can initiate.
But the EU has so far failed to prepare the Western Balkans for accession, in line with its leaders’ promise at their Thessaloniki summit in 2003 to admit the Western Balkan states when they meet the Union’s standards.
While the EU at first took their accession negotiations a bit too casually, it subsequently decided to continue monitoring the two countries even after accession in order to ensure that they develop the effective administrative and judicial systems that are an obligation of membership.
The EU must learn from this experience to develop an accession strategy for the Western Balkans, whose development has been delayed by a complex post-conflict transition process.
A reinvigorated accession process would contribute to the EU’s consolidation, both territorially and politically, while strengthening its role in its wider neighborhood – the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and around the Black Sea.
The accession countries of East Central Europe all fulfilled the criteria;Turkey is now following their example.
It is worth recalling that nearly four years passed from the onset of the Great Depression in Germany to the Nazis’ accession to power.
But it is folly for European powers to believe that they can rely on shared values to achieve international cooperation, just as it was folly for the West to believe that accession to the World Trade Organization would somehow turn China into a liberal democracy.
With the accession of 10 new states in 2004 and another two at the beginning of 2007, the Union’s membership now spans central and eastern Europe.
In East European countries, this was a major problem, and it is only through accession negotiations with the European Union that such administrative reform has been assured.
Deripaska is leading the campaign to slow Russia's accession to the WTO.
There will be neither a new and leaner European Treaty nor a conclusion of accession negotiations with Turkey, let alone an offer of membership talks with Ukraine, Georgia, or Moldova.
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