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| | Enlargement of the European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, said the agreements "moved Switzerland closer to Europe." Joseph Deiss of the Swiss Federal Council said, "We might not be at the very centre of Europe but we're definitely at the heart of Europe". | | | Consequently, the enlargement in 2004 was only the first part of the Fifth Enlargement. | | | There are multiple Special member state territories, some of them are not fully covered by the EU treaties and apply EU law only partially, if at all. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlargement_of_the_European_Union
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| | Enlargement of the European Union |
| | Whatever is adopted at the convention and subsequent decisions of the member states on a revised framework for the European Union, it will have to be acceptable to public opinion in all member states. | | | The trade-off by the large member states in giving up one of their Commissioners for greater voting strength in the Council was envisaged in the Amsterdam Treaty but it did not include the concept of an individual member state not having a Commissioner at all for a period of time. | | | In the Council it is essential that its decisions reflect the democratic will of both a majority of the member states and a majority of the Union's population. |
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http://www.irlgov.ie/committees-02/c-europeanaffairs/r020501/Page1.htm
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| | CH-EU - European Union - Enlargement of the European Union |
| | It submitted a draft EU constitution to the Thessaloniki European Council of June 2003; this will now be discussed by EU heads of state and government at an intergovernmental conference in Rome beginning in October 2003 and ending before the next European Parliament elections on 15 June 2004. | | | In December 2000 the Nice European Council approved the institutional reforms, including the allocation of seats and votes on the Council, the Commission and the Parliament in a 27-member Union. | | | The declaration of the Laeken European Council of 14-15 December 2001 for the first time named the ten countries which could become new EU member states from 2004: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Cyprus. |
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http://www.europa.admin.ch/eu/info_mat/dossiers/e/erweiterung.htm
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| | EU enlargement |
| | The ceremonial signing of the Treaty of Accession with the ten accession countries took place in Athens on 16 April 2003 with the participation of the Heads of State and Government and the Foreign Ministers of the countries involved. | | | The accession negotiations between the EU and ten accession candidates &; Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – were concluded at the European Council of 12-13 December 2002, also held in Copenhagen. | | | the entire body of EU law (the so-called acquis communautaire), and adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union (the acquis criterion). |
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http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/eu_politik/vertiefung/erweiterung_html
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| | The enlargement of the European Union and the Kaliningrad Region |
| | In this respect, the members of the State Duma called on the national parliaments of the Member States of the European Union, the Parliament of Lithuania, the National Assembly of Poland and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. | | | The meeting of the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union with the Russian Ministers responsible for justice and home affairs on 25 April 2002, which focused on the European Union’s Action Plan on the fight against organised crime, could be welcomed in this respect. | | | On 27 August 2002, the President of the Russian Federation proposed in parallel letters to the President of the European Commission and the heads of state and government of the European Union member states to work towards waiving visa requirements for Russian citizens in the future. |
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http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/doc02/EDOC9560.htm
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| | EUguides - European Union Enlargement - EUbusiness - EU law, politics and finance |
| | Prior to joining, the new members had to adopt the so-called acquis communautaire which meant applying 80 000 pages of EU law, making their bureaucratic and administrative structures more efficient, strengthening judicial systems and tightening security at their eastern borders. | | | Only Bulgaria and Romania, two candidate countries which belonged to the second wave of negotiations of February 2000 alongside Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovakia, were unable to accede in 2004 because they were not ready. | | | Recent case-law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance : EU Enlargement |
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http://www.eubusiness.com/guides/enlargement
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| | ECSA Review Forum: Enlargement of the European Union |
| | Friis, Lykke and Anna Murphy (forthcoming) "Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act," in Maria Green Cowles and Michael Smith (eds.) The State of the European Union, Vol. | | | Lykke Friis is a Senior Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Affairs in Copenhagen, Denmark; Anna Murphy is Senior Policy Analyst at Forfas, the National Policy and Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology & Innovation, in Dublin, Ireland. | | | Prior to the European Council meetings in Berlin (June 1999) and Nice, it was not taken for granted that the EU could agree on policy reform and institutional reform respectively. |
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http://www.eustudies.org/enlargementforum.html
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| | Enlargement of the European Union |
| | This reform is a prerequisite to the enlargement of the European Union beyond the fifteen member states. | | | This agreement must be ratified by all states concerned in accordance with their respective constitutions (referendum or vote in Parliament). | | | the member states meet in Council and vote, after having consulted the European Commission and after a verdict of conformity from the European Parliament; the vote must be unanimous; |
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http://www.franceway.com/w3/Histoire/europe/Enlargement.html
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| | SSRN-Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Sour Grapes or Sweet Lemon? by Miroslav N. Jovanovic |
| | First, in accordance with the Maastricht Treaty, the Union became an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) for 11 member countries on 1 January 1999. | | | The general terms for enlargement are known, but the specific terms are being negotiated. | | | Ten countries with economies in transition, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia (the 'Luxembourg group'), Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Slovakia (the 'Helsinki group'), and two market economies, Cyprus and Malta, negotiate full membership with the EU 2. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=261059
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| | Agriculture and enlargement of the European Union |
| | This report presents the situation in several acceding countries. | | | The perspective of European Union accession has been and still is an unquestioned motivation for carrying out in future member states several restructuring processes in the fields of law, institution building, branch restructuring and food quality. | | | It is stated that in case “a new member state has failed to implement commitments undertaken in the context of the accession negotiations, causing a serious breach of the functioning of the internal market” safeguard measures may be invoked against them. |
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http://assembly.coe.int/Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc03/EDOC9812.htm
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| | Enlargement of the European Union - Biz/ed Research Project |
| | This nuclear power plant in Lithuania will be closed with the support of the EU. | | | The evidence in this case is related to the issues associated with the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004 from 15 to 25 members. | | | Poland and the issues surrounding EU Enlargement (http://www.bized.ac.uk/current/mind/2003_4/120104.htm) |
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http://www.bized.ac.uk/current/research/2003_04/010304.htm
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| | Brookings Scholar: Michael Calingaert |
| | Visiting Scholar, Center on the United States and Europe, | | | Executive Vice President, Council for the United States and Italy; Member, Political Section, Institute of European Studies, Free University of Brussels | | | Director of European Operations, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; Economic Minister, U.S. Embassy, London; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Economic Minister, U.S. Embassy, Rome |
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http://www.brookings.edu/scholars/mcalingaert.htm
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| | Enlargement of the European Union |
| | ELDR (Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party) | | | ...of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union | | | Joint Debate on Enlargement, 9 April 2003, before the vote in which the EP gave its assent to the accession of all ten countries with which accession negotiations had been concluded: |
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http://www.europarl.eu.int/enlargement/default_en.htm
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| | European Encyclopedia Article @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) |
| | However, in many cases monoculture plantations of conifers have replaced the original mixed natural forest, because these grow quicker. | | | Also includes Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two regions that have declared, and de facto achieved, independence; however, they are not recognised de jure by sovereign states. | | | This extended lowland is known as the Great European Plain, and at its heart lies the North German Plain. |
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| | Essay or Coursework : The Enlargement of the European Union |
| | Enlargement is the means by which national states concede to the transfer of sovereignty to supranational institutions and agree to invest in common policies within a customs union. | | | In the current European case, this fundamentally is the development of the fifteen member state grouping to integrate up to as many as thirteen new member states into the union, ten central and Eastern European countries along with Cyprus, Malta and Turkey. | | | This will enable the EU to span more than two-thirds of |
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| | Category:European Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | List of United States ambassadors to the European Union | | | Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits | | | Articles and media on this topic in other Wikimedia projects can be found at: Commons Category European Union |
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| | Enlargement of the European Union : Impact on the Economic Structures |
| | The views and opinions expressed in this document do not reflect the position of the Minister of Economy nor the FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-employed and Energy. | | | Summary of the study conducted by the GEPE (Groupe d'Etudes Politiques Européennes - study group on European Policies) on the impact of the European Union enlargement and which gave fuel for the debate at the study day on 24 April 2002 | | | Finally, the last part deals with the financial and budgetary resources required for this enlargement. |
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http://mineco.fgov.be/organization_market/expansion_EU/home_en.htm
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| | Enlargement of the European Union |
| | The European Union regulations concerning safety of products such as machinery, personal protective equipment, etc. now also apply in the new member states. | | | Consequently, the single market became functioning reality - at least from the legal perspective - as of 1 May 2004. | | | On 1 May 2004, ten new member states joined the EU, thus considerably increasing the size of the European single market. |
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http://www.hvbg.de/e/bgp/aktuell/eu_erweiterung
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| | European Union Enlargement |
| | Welcome to the portal for information on European Union enlargement and the United Kingdom. | | | European Commission Representation in the UK You will find here the | | | for an overview of the recent EU enlargement. |
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