Strong growth in the budget could have made membership difficult for the three formerly Communist countries to afford.

One change is to make membership voluntary in the insurance purchasing pools known as alliances.

Allowed for organisations to be made illegal, making membership an arrestable offence.

Three years later, the club's congress decided to make membership exclusive to Egyptians, earning them the title of 'the people's club'.

Even before the release of the commission report, there had been growing pressure to make membership in the association optional.

The same law also made membership in the male Hitler Youth compulsory for all boys above the age of 10.

In addition, there were 50 new federal offenses, including provisions making membership in gangs a crime.

The second question is what the Commission will do to make cross-border membership of pension funds a reality.

He is expected to make full membership of the EU one of the country's key foreign policy objectives.

He voted for making membership in the Communist Party a crime.