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To the extent that the prime minister articulates the case for membership, he will provide it; if he is perceived as being in thrall to his backbenchers, he will not.
How to Reform the IMF NowWASHINGTON, DC – More than four years have passed since an overwhelming majority of the membership of the International Monetary Fund agreed to a package of reforms that would double the organization’s resources and reorganize its governing structure in favor of developing countries.
The gap in per-capita income of the EU15 (the membership prior to the accession of mainly post-communist states in 2004) relative to the United States – taken as a reference in many targets – is unchanged at 30-40%, depending on the adjustment to purchasing power parity.
The candidate states, on the other hand, have, in order to qualify for membership of the EU, to swallow 80 000 pages of rules and regulations known as the 'acquis communautaire'.
This would not be seen as 'second class' membership, but rather as the right 'Agenda 2000', the proper answer to the hopes of a genuinely reunited Europe that were reborn in 1989.
Europe's Coming Crisis with TurkeyLONDON: By the end of the second week of December the European Union will finally have decided which countries will be asked to enter membership negotiations.
In 1987, however, when Turkey applied for full membership of the European Community, the Commission gave it the thumbs down: Turkey was too poor and too populous (before the unification of Germany, it was bigger than any member state); its human rights record was unacceptable; and it was disqualified by its invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974.
What they really want is a firm commitment by the Europeans to offer EU membership to Turkey.
If the EU goes ahead with membership negotiations with Cyprus, however, then the Turks in retaliation may block any enlargement of Nato into Eastern Europe.
Some experts argue that, even if the EU does open membership negotiations with the Greek-Cypriot government of Cyprus, as it is virtually bound to do, it must make clear that they cannot be completed without a settlement of the Cyprus question.
Apart from the unanimous nomination of Prodi, the main achievements of the Berlin summit were a dilution of the reform of farm policy, a dilution of budget reform, and maintenance of the absurd and hypocritical pretence that the first six candidates for membership can expect to be inside the EU by 2002.
To bolster trust, membership in the coalition would be contingent on progress, assessed according to annual disclosure requirements, with rewards for the strongest performers.
Membership is voluntary, and people who don't like the rules can leave.
Had the SPD remained in opposition, as it vowed to do after its poor election result, it could have spent the next four years renewing its platform and membership, while acting as a strong challenger to both Merkel and the right- and left-wing populists.
Turkey seeks to re-establish its Islamic identity and “Ottoman” influence over the Middle East, thereby flexing its diplomatic muscles for a European Union that has all but rejected Turkish membership.
Unfortunately, the territorial defense guarantee that comes with NATO membership does little good in a conflict conducted in the shadows through assassinations, cyber warfare, and criminal subterfuge.
Nor does NATO membership help in responding to the Kremlin’s exploitation of European dependence on Russian energy, such as when it uses natural-gas supplies as a geopolitical weapon.
What is on offer to Iran is not just relief from economic sanctions;Iran is being offered membership in the international community – an outcome that some Iranian leaders (though obviously not all) clearly want.
And, without EU membership, it is hard to imagine that a majority of people in Scotland or Catalonia would take the plunge into economic uncertainty that independence would bring.
America's membership in a web of multilateral institutions ranging from the UN to NATO may reduce US autonomy, but seen in the light of a constitutional bargain, the multilateral ingredient of America's current preeminence is a key to its longevity, because it reduces the incentives for constructing alliances against the US.
With NATO membership for Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary the Yalta world order came to an end.
Similarly, the declaration merely reiterates America’s position that it supports India’s “full membership” in the four US-led technology-control regimes: the Wassenaar Arrangement, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime, and the Australia Group.
For the first time, a country in the region is matching its aspirations with the concrete steps needed to become a viable candidate for eventual membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions.
As for the EU, the candidacies of Romania and Bulgaria need to be concluded successfully, together with the issue of Turkey's membership aspirations.
Even stalwart supporters of EU membership may feel that their countries are not being treated as equals if they are bullied for holding a different opinion than bigger members.
At any rate, Chirac has handed Euroskeptics new ammunition with which to target the "no" vote ahead of EU membership referenda in the candidate countries later this year.
But with less than a year remaining until “Brexit day” – when the UK’s EU membership officially ends – it is clear that the British government’s hopes of dividing and conquering the EU economy have been dashed.
According to a recent Eurobarometer survey, if a referendum on EU membership were held today, 83% of Europeans would vote to remain in the bloc; and a record-high 60% regard EU membership as a “good thing” for their country.
It still gives the victors of the Second World War permanent membership of the Council, and a veto over its decisions.
At the outset, it must be stressed that, in seeking earlier entry into the EMU a country assumes a more ambitious fiscal and structural program than would be needed if EMU membership is delayed.
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