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Believing Jacques Chirac would deliver on his pledges of support, it promised NATO membership.
In fact, the fate of this group is perhaps the best example of how individual identities of the new member states are beginning to assert themselves now that membership in the EU and NATO are secured.
Most notably, the United Kingdom is seeking to renegotiate the terms of its EU membership, with a referendum on the outcome that will determine whether it leaves the EU altogether.
A flexible membership system would enable countries to join the northern euro when their economic and fiscal conditions became strong enough.
And, though a formal offer of membership in either organization is at best a distant possibility, it has not been ruled out.
In China, for all of its massive problems, things continue to go right not least because of huge inflows of foreign direct investment and the imminent benefits of WTO membership.
And last month, Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani prime minister’s foreign-policy adviser, said that China has helped Pakistan to block India’s US-supported bid to gain membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, an export-control association.
But Bo apparently is not accepting his political demise as a final act – in his closing statement, he told the court that he wanted to keep his Party membership (he was expelled anyway) – and a comeback calculus may well have motivated his spirited performance.
Turkey, whose membership in the European Union Customs Union was already supporting its economic transformation, moved closer to eligibility for eventual EU membership – a process that reinforced the country’s motivation to make progress on democratic reforms.
The latter is worth emulating because admission and continued membership are conditioned on respect for specific democratic standards.
Investors come here because they link Ireland’s eurozone membership to our long-term economic stability and access to outside support if necessary.
It seems evident that this principle will be effectively binding on all member states, and all candidates for membership.
His successor, Harold Wilson, secured the membership with a 1975 referendum.
Two other countries, Bulgaria and Romania, can aim for membership three years after that.
Turkey, after much huffing and puffing, has had its status as an officially recognized candidate for membership reaffirmed, even if mighty doubts remain as to when it will actually join.
LONDON: The glow of optimism at the European Union's Helsinki summit last month, when EU leaders decided to extend membership negotiations to all ten candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe, plus Malta and Cyprus, is fading fast.
The trouble is that the candidate countries now seeking membership are keen to get their share of the CAP gravy.
But all incomes in the candidate countries are much lower than those in the EU, and if EU membership were to give a sudden upward shove to rural incomes in Central Europe, it could be quite destabilising for social relations there.
One solution mooted by the Commission as a way of finessing the problem is to have a long transition period between membership of the EU, and full participation in the CAP.
Indeed, the single most important factor, which will have a decisive impact on developments to come and could set the stage for a remarkable success story, or, on the contrary, lead to failure, is the European Union's forthcoming decision on whether or not to start negotiations towards Turkey's full EU membership in 2005.
In December of 2002, EU leaders committed the Union to start negotiations with Turkey on full membership, provided Turkey fulfilled the relevant criteria common to all candidate countries.
With a referendum on the UK’s continued EU membership set to take place before the end of 2017, the talks are the first step toward negotiating changes which, EU leaders hope, will convince British voters to choose Europe.
If he asks for too little, Britain’s Euroskeptics will have more fuel for their campaign against continued membership.
Likewise, if EU leaders give Cameron too much – allowing the UK to reap the benefits of membership, without shouldering the same responsibilities as its partners – their populations could turn on them.
The EU is truly “convincing” only when it can use the seductive power of a membership card.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas defiantly disregards the US threat to stop aid if Palestine persists in its bid for United Nations membership.
The advantages of such a deal are obvious: in an uncertain world, membership in a larger community provides valuable protection and assurance.
In 1990, at the White House, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev unexpectedly suggested that NATO membership for a reunified Germany would stabilize the continent.
With the government now seeking to negotiate even looser membership terms, Britain will end up more estranged from the EU even if it remains a member.
The arguments against creating a European single currency and then allowing Greece to cheat its way into membership were valid back in the 1990s – and, in theory, they still are.
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