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A good place to start would be to push for a different attitude on accession countries' adoption of the Euro.
Indeed, EU institutions' current paternalistic stance towards the accession countries threatens to create a two-tier Europe that will complicate the task of integration.
The accession countries have upheld their end of the bargain, achieving a degree of trade integration with EU countries that is even higher than many current members.
Unfortunately, the stubbornness of the ECB and the European Commission is now providing ammunition to populist governments in accession countries that are counting on currency appreciation to escape the fiscal discipline that adopting the Euro would imply.
Indeed, the accession countries that have not implemented a currency board have seen their budget deficits surge--exceeding 9% of GDP in Hungary in 2002 and more than 5% in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia--while large capital inflows have kept their currencies under strong pressure to appreciate.
The objective of growth for the accession countries is apparently the sole imperative in Brussels; macroeconomic stability can wait.
If this line of thought sounds familiar, perhaps it is because it (more or less) recapitulates the foundations of the unsustainable planning system with which the accession countries broke at the beginning of the 1990's.
So European institutions should abandon their paternalistic approach and take seriously the concerns of accession countries' central bankers about the risks of maintaining their own currencies for a long period during which their economies have to open up completely to capital flows.
They can begin by viewing accession countries' early adoption of the Euro more favorably, both for countries with a currency board and for those with floating exchange rates.
China’s accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 was an important milestone here.
As a result, real-estate development became the most important contributor to economic growth, even as exports boomed following China’s accession to the World Trade Organization.
The procedures for accession to the BRICS countries’ New Development Bank are not yet established.
Cuba may or may not be politically ready to join the international financial institutions, but it clearly meets the conditions needed to apply for accession to the IMF.
The process for accession is relatively simple.
Determining Cuba’s quota is the crux of the accession process, and the country will need to choose an executive director to represent its interests during that discussion.
If Cuba agrees with the committee’s proposal, the chairman will submit its recommendation for Cuba’s accession to the board, where once again a simple majority is required.
The urgency of this situation demands that the bilateral relationship move beyond narrow discussions of Turkey’s accession to the EU.
After all, given broad resistance to any further EU enlargement at the moment, the accession process will undoubtedly move very slowly.
The objective should thus be to find new, more efficient modes of cooperation that avoid the issues and conflicts that have impeded accession negotiations.
This is not to say that the accession process should be abandoned.
But progress has been hampered by a congeries of bilateral political disputes between Western Balkan and EU countries, similar to when Slovenia, taking advantage of EU membership, temporarily blocked Croatia’s accession.
Even when Obama was actively supporting Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organization earlier in his presidency, he had to expend considerable political capital just to repeal the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment, which secured freer Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union as a condition for normal trade relations.
Moreover, the US insists that it is not containing China (as it did the Soviet Union); on the contrary, China’s economic rise has been facilitated by access to US markets, as well as to global markets through American support for Chinese accession to the World Trade Organization.
And wherever one looks, from Trump’s trade wars to Russia and Moldova vowing to block Britain’s post-Brexit accession to the World Trade Organization, reality is ineluctably crushing Brexiteers’ fantasies of English importance.
Reducing the income gap between old and new members would cut the transfer payments to be made by the Western countries to the East following the latter's eventual accession to the EU.
During the campaign, the MHP leadership even called for Turkey to withdraw its moribund bid for accession to the European Union.
While the AKP has moderated this authoritarian feature, it is difficult to democratize such a constitution fully, and official EU reports on Turkey’s prospects for accession repeatedly call for a new constitution, not merely an amended one.
The battle over Turkish membership in the EU will be fought on many fronts: in the country itself, where the government is currently undertaking major reforms in order to qualify for candidate status; at the negotiating table once the European Council in December 2004 authorizes the Commission to enter into formal accession talks; and among the public within the existing member countries.
It would take only one country out of perhaps 30 EU members in 2013 to bloc Turkey's accession.
Block Benefits, Not ImmigrantsAs EU enlargement approaches, people across Western Europe fear a flood of job-seeking immigrants from the postcommunist accession countries.
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