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As for most of the countries of the former Soviet Union, which remain stuck in transit, EU membership is not in the cards for North Africa and the Middle East.
Slovenia is in the European Union, Croatia is very close to membership, and all of the region’s other countries have started along the EU path.
New EU membership applications confirm the desire of Balkan governments to engage seriously in internal reforms.
But the road to EU membership involves painful sacrifice, so each country should be judged on its own merits.
Over the last 20 years, the goal of EU membership has proved an invaluable asset for stabilizing, democratizing, and modernizing the western Balkans.
India, unlike both Pakistan and North Korea, is seen as a responsible nuclear power, a country the US now supports for membership in various groups designed to stem the further spread of nuclear materials and weapons.
Together, they constitute a turning point in the way the IMF works, and will allow it to serve its global membership even better.
The upcoming referendum on Britain’s EU membership is a case in point.
Meanwhile, advocates of continued EU membership portray their opponents as obscurantist, ill-educated, know-nothing little Englanders, driven solely by anger and fear.
If the EU should fail to reform its internal structures and or admit those countries it has promised membership, domestic stability in these countries and the Union’s international standing will be damaged.
The region is a volatile mix of rising nationalism, deep economic frustration, and disillusionment about progress toward membership in the European Union.
The sunny climate of the eastern Mediterranean draws a steady stream of tourists, and European Union membership in the south has pushed income levels for Greek Cypriots higher than the EU average.
Greece is urgently called upon to play a more constructive role in the peace process by explaining the benefits of its own normalization of relations with Turkey and its support for that country’s EU membership.
As for the EU itself, she promises to follow in the UK’s footsteps, renegotiating the terms of her country’s membership, and then calling a referendum on the agreement.
Europe’s leaders must also begin thinking about how they should respond to Le Pen’s request to renegotiate the terms of France’s EU membership, and to what extent they should resist her efforts to remove France from the rest of Europe.
They want full UN membership, but – facing inevitable veto of that option by the United States in the Security Council – are willing to accept as a fallback a majority vote by the General Assembly recognizing Palestine as a non-member “observer state,” the status now enjoyed by the Vatican.
Encouraged by US President George W. Bush’s administration, Georgia had initiated NATO membership talks, impelling Russian President Vladimir Putin to defend the red line he had drawn the previous year.
For them, NATO and EU membership were part of an anti-Russian package, just as they had been for West European countries in the 1950s.
Although Ukraine, too, applied for NATO membership in 2008, it did not provoke Russian intervention.
The political leadership of the Baltic states toughed it out, accepting savage austerity to continue on their path toward euro membership.
In 2009, it is still the first force in the new parliament, with 267 deputies out of a total of 736: the decrease in its membership is also due to the stated commitment of the British Conservatives and the Czech right party to defect from the EPP to create their own party, with a stronger right-wing line.
Obama must still fulfill his promises to celebrate with Palestinians their full membership of the UN this fall and to draw down its forces in Afghanistan.
Rather, many Europeans share the view that former British Prime Minister David Cameron blundered by calling for a referendum on EU membership.
But the authorities implemented far-reaching reforms in the early 1960s, and, over the next three decades, it became an industrial powerhouse with a standard of living that qualified it for membership in the OECD, the club of rich countries.
Bulgaria and Croatia could be persuaded to participate provided it would not interfere with their candidacy for EU membership.
The “yes” campaign hoped to win supporters with a utopian vision of an independent Scotland that included European Union and NATO membership; a currency union with England, but no fiscal union; improved public services and social benefits; and lower taxes.
In Eastern Europe, former communist countries applying for European Union membership must harmonize their laws with those of the EU.
This stance rules out continued membership in the single market.
Rather than come clean about this, May is seeking “frictionless” trade through “associate membership” in the customs union, even though this directly contradicts her assertion that Britain does not want to be “half-in, half-out” of the EU.
PRINCETON – The British government’s recent announcement that a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership will be held on June 23 was quickly followed by a sharp drop in the pound’s value.
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