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For a short time, Rudi thought about joining the Clinton administration.
The former Soviet satellites were offered the alluring prospect of joining the EU and NATO, which helped smooth the way for radical political and economic reforms.
Without addressing the question of its final borders, however, Serbia has no prospect of joining the EU.
It is widely believed, even among the most Euro-skeptical of observers, that joining the eurozone will affirm these countries' successful transformation into modern market economies.
For example, following President Park Geun-hye’s request that Xi honor the Korean assassin of a Japanese prime minister, to which Xi readily agreed, she began to discuss joining the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations, in order to assuage the US.
For southern European countries, joining the euro was – explicitly or implicitly – a way to force their citizens to accept a degree of fiscal discipline that they were incapable of adopting on their own.
But there must be no softening of the criteria for joining the euro.
Slouching Towards EuropeWhen communism in Eastern Europe collapsed, the region's new democratic leaders agreed that joining the European Union--fast--must be their priority.
And what’s the point of joining Facebook if not to be cool?
Since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, China has been accused of failing to meet its market-access obligations, and even of having regressed in some areas.
By joining the World Trade Organization, improving their investment climates, and stopping interference with shuttle traders – mostly poor women trying to make a living –governments would give the region’s businesses and farmers access to markets and attract much-needed new investment.
Indeed, it is striking that the majority of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina believe that their leaders are not interested in their country joining the EU.
Less than one in 10 Croats (whose country could be joining the EU in the near future) believes that their country is heading in the right direction.
The basic problem for Anglosphere advocates is that none of the candidates for membership of this new club are likely to have the slightest interest – geostrategic, economic or political – in joining it.
Indeed, Italy’s average annual GDP growth rate since joining Europe’s economic and monetary union in 1999 has been an anemic 0.5%, well below the eurozone average of nearly 1.5%.
When you go into a situation like this – whether joining a board or entering a market – you always have one option left, which is to walk away.
These newly laid-off workers are joining more than six million new college graduates looking for work.
That is why France had a referendum on the Maastricht treaty, and Denmark (on 28 September) and Britain (who knows when?) will have one on joining the euro-zone.
Ironically, the fear of ‘instability’ to Germany’s east - which nourished German support for EU enlargement - has been reduced by Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary joining NATO.
The problem is that fusion involves joining two positively charged nuclei – and, as basic science shows, same-sign charges repel each other.
Owing to the name dispute, Greece has blocked the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (a provisional reference used since 1993) from joining the EU and NATO.
Having failed to forewarn Greece, Portugal, Ireland, and Spain about the perils of joining a currency bloc, the IMF should have considered whether it was proper or necessary for it to intervene at all in the eurozone crisis.
After all, Ukraine managed to eliminate its nuclear weapons and reach accommodation over the Black Sea fleet without joining a private economic bloc with Russia.
Powerless politically and economically, some children feel that they can only assert themselves by joining an army.
In fact, Bulgarian, Croatian, and Romanian households have already loaded up on excessive debt in foreign currencies – primarily euros – in anticipation of joining the monetary union, and this has created substantial financial difficulties.
India, too, is now joining the military build-up.
Israel is now well on its way to joining the growing club of illiberal democracies, and it has Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to thank.
Indeed, as Israel’s right-wing government moves to bury the two-state solution for good, Germans are joining other Europeans in vocally opposing Israeli policy in Palestine.
If we antagonize Europe’s Muslims enough we will push more people into joining the Islamist revolution.
It is within our power to recover or reinvigorate our freedoms and our societies, not by individual efforts, but by joining forces with likeminded people all over the world.
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