accession to the European Union

All this, in exchange for the promise of future accession to the European Union.

There are shortcomings in all countries before their accession to the European Union, but they remedy them.

I think that accession to the European Union will entail benefits for all the parties involved.

I therefore consider that Turkey has a long way to go to accession to the European Union.

Nearly all the groups who tabled this motion for a resolution back Turkey’s accession to the European Union.

Rational forces in Turkey have long since recognised that accession to the European Union is not the most worthwhile goal for them.

These two countries have adopted the Schengen acquis since their accession to the European Union in 2007.

After accession to the European Union, the Latvian government lapsed into a sense of a 'job well done'; it had achieved its goal.

EVEN as these things occur, the concrete results of the Polish accession to the European Union have been almost entirely positive.

As requested by the Council, the Commission will continue to inform the Turkish Cypriot community about the advantages of accession to the European Union.

Secondly, let me say quite clearly and plainly that we want to open the way to and offer FYROM accession to the European Union.

In the context of the negotiations for accession to the European Union, the three countries took the commitment to close and subsequently decommission these nuclear reactors on fixed dates.

Preliminary results tonight show 78.02 percent of voters backed accession to the European Union and 21.98 percent voted no, the State Election Commission announced just before midnight.

In 2008, a poll was conducted among retired British expats in Turkey, with the question being whether they would approve of Turkey's accession to the European Union.

Prior to Malta's accession to the European Union, the EU accepted Malta's request to protect the ġbejna along with the traditional variant of ricotta.

I emphatically welcome the fact that, on 10 June, Slovenia was finally able to make its application for accession to the European Union on the same day that the association agreement was signed.

One of the great merits of this process preparing the way for future Turkish accession to the European Union is that it encourages reforms leading to pluralist democracy, a modern economy and respect for individual rights.

In the past, dictatorships were always given preferential treatment in terms of accession to the European Union if they were able to make their governmental structure a democratic one and found a way of doing this.

Conditions of Poland's accession to the European Union (in May 2004) oblige the country to eventually adopt the euro, though not at any specific date and only after Poland meets the necessary stability criteria.

Nevertheless, I cannot refrain from expressing a certain amount of disappointment - which I hope you will be able to dispel in your reply - regarding your silence on the matter of Malta's accession to the European Union.

Wolverton remained a relatively cheap place to live in Milton Keynes through to the second half of the first decade of the 21st century, when it began to attract immigrants from Poland following that country's accession to the European Union.

A failed referendum on extending the operation of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant was held at the same time, despite the fact that Lithuania is obliged to close down Ignalina per its treaty of accession to the European Union.

Is Turkey required to adopt and implement the above Convention 'at the moment of its accession to the European Union' or 'to adopt and fully implement the acquis by the time of its accession to the Europe Union'?

A condition for the latter's accession to the European Union should be to do justice to the many tens of thousands of victims of mass murders since the Second World War, as well as a ban on the violence against Hungarians that continues to this day.

His success is all the more significant given that, at the same time, the electorate came out in favour of Malta's accession to the European Union, thus confirming the line taken by the previous Fenech Adami government, and which obtained a favourable opinion from our institutions in 1995.