EU accession remains a dominant policy goal for a number of countries in the subregion.

But the new regulation also seriously penalizes subsidiary financing in new EU member and accession countries.

For Poles, the dream was realized on May 1 with EU accession.

At the end of 2004, the EU decided to initiate accession talks.

The EU accession agenda continued to drive the country's economic reform programme.

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Some warned even before EU accession that their nations could lose their identity.

Of course, there is vast domestic resistance to Turkey s accession to the EU.

Recent accession to the EU gives further impetus and direction to structural reform.

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The EU accession process has also underpinned a shift in Turkish policy on Iraq.

That government has undertaken various important democratic reforms and initiated accession negotiations with the EU.

This race to restrict pervaded decision making on transitional arrangements following accession of 10 new members eight of them postcommunist countries to the EU last May.

In other words, this strategy is compatible with EU accession only if the EU strengthens its own capacity for concerted action on foreign policy.

Turkey would then have to conduct dual negotiations over Cyprus and over its own EU accession.

It may also be constructive to take advantage of transitional provisions linked to Turkey s EU accession.

In the question of Turkish accession to the EU, the journey matters more than the destination.

Our accession to the EU further accelerated growth, as reflected in the country's key macroeconomic indicators.

In Central Europe and the Baltics, the promise of EU accession offered a path through the transition.

The EU and the US should underscore the need for political change and for candidates who support EU accession as indispensable to Bosnia s economic and political progress.

Moreover, these populists attack the EU as an elite imposed project, while pro European coalitions have become exhausted, disintegrating in the aftermath of EU accession in 2004.

Distrust between EU countries seems widespread.

The eastern neighbors are not like the central European states that negotiated EU accession in the 1990 s.

In order to prepare for EU accession, Turkey has undertaken vast and serious legal, political, and economic reforms.

In March 2001, the Swiss people refused in a popular vote to start accession negotiations with the EU.

The EU welcomes the accession to the NPT in 2002 and 2003 respectively of Cuba and Timor Leste.

Accession to the European Union (EU) has been a driving force in improving water governance in the region.

Domestic support for EU accession was 70 at the start of the negotiations, but is now closer to 40 .

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That seduction should begin this year, with an agenda that sets the process and timeframe for accession, to be followed by an EU Turkey Treaty that confirms the country s accession by 2020.

Should the EU consider the accession criteria as having been fulfilled, it must decide to open negotiations in early 2005.

(iv) 2002 2003 Director of the EU Policy and Legal Advice Centre in Belgrade (tasked by the European Commission with assisting Serbia and Montenegro with the EU accession strategy, see www.plac.yu.org).

The Group supported countries in the process of accession to the WTO.

Turkey thus argues that the charge of genocide is designed to besmirch Turkey s honor and impede its progress towards EU accession.

Clearly, Turkey is a key country for the EU in terms of securing stability and prosperity in its immediate neighborhood. Yet accession negotiations between Turkey and the EU have been deadlocked, owing to prevailing political attitudes in some EU member states.

Ukraine needs the discipline of the accession process and thus the promise of EU membership if reforms are to be implemented effectively.

At the same time, Turkey moved decisively onto the path of political and administrative reform in order to start EU accession negotiations.

The immediate beneficial impact of EU accession turned out to be greater than expected as dismantling the remaining trade barriers bolstered exports.

The poorer EU countries will suffer from this development.

Many other EU countries appear to have similar laws.

Today s Turkey has also changed dramatically since 1999, both politically and economically, and this has much to do with the EU accession process.

The EU bet here is that, on the back of Croatia s accession, the enlargement logjam in the western Balkans will finally be broken.

But the EU will succeed in transposing its laws, norms, and values to accession candidates only if applicant governments take its promises seriously.

But these bodies must not be seen as substitutes for the far more comprehensive accession process, which only the EU itself can initiate.

For Turkey to consider military intervention in Kurdistan, EU member states would first have to renege on their commitment to negotiate Turkish accession.