The EU Turkey relationship began with an association agreement signed in 1963.

Although the Association Agreement does not lead automatically to EU membership, it is an important step in that direction.

The EU should also be encouraged to be more forthright in agreeing to an Association Agreement and free trade area.

Since the entry into force of the Association Agreement in 2002, the EU has developed a fruitful partnership with Jordan.

The easiest option would be conditional liberalization of trade in services within the existing framework of the EU Israel Association Agreement.

The EU s talks with Ukraine on a proposed Association Agreement, for example, provide some leverage, which the EU should not hesitate to use.

This November, at its Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius, the EU will decide on whether to proceed with an Association Agreement with Ukraine.

The Association Agreement, which runs to some 1,200 pages, would remove almost all EU tariffs on Ukrainian goods, boosting the country s long term GDP by an estimated 12 .

WASHINGTON The European Union s most important decision this fall will be whether to sign an Association Agreement with Ukraine at the EU summit in Vilnius on November 28 29.

Equally wrong is the view that Turkey s Association agreement of 1963 holds little relevance for its membership in the EU because at the time the Community s character was purely economic.

Unsurprisingly, Yanukovych has consistently stated his preference for an Association Agreement.

The defendant invoked the arbitration agreement contained in the lease agreement between the former owner and the association.

Serbia started the process of joining the EU by signing of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement on 29 April 2008 and officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009.

We will also sign a far reaching free trade agreement with the EU.

That explains why some EU member states are keen to resume the negotiations on a Stabilization and Association Agreement, which were suspended a year ago due to Serbia s failure to cooperate fully with the ICTY.

The report analyses the agreement for the tenth replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA).

The ratification process of the Association agreement with the European Union should be speeded up.

Therefore the real results of this EU agreement on climate funding remain to be seen.

EU member States recently agreed to support the G 8 agreement to write off debt.

The European Union has 25 member States, while the Schengen Agreement covers 13 EU and two non EU member States (see S 2005 83, para.

Political association with the EU, and the process of integration under this Partnership, will promote reforms in these key areas.

We are working on a new Association Agreement, which would anchor Moldova in the European space.

He was pleased to inform the Committee that Romania had concluded an association agreement with the European Communities and a free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Association, and it was developing bilateral relations with the United States.

Labelled by the US as part of the axis of evil, Syria has also seen Saudi financial aid dry up and fears that the trade benefits that would come with ratification of its Association Agreement with the EU will never materialize.

The EU strongly supports the efforts of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, in association with the European Union's High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to find an acceptable agreement to rebuild international confidence in Iran's intentions.

Finally, a free trade agreement between Hungary and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) had been signed.

In 1993, it had signed an association agreement with the European Community which had proved particularly beneficial.

Hungary had signed an agreement of association with the European Community, and had entered into a free trade agreement with Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Significant progress in police restructuring is a condition for Bosnia and Herzegovina to move forward in the EU stabilization and association process.

A new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between the EU and the Russian Federation must be negotiated.

But Europe s interest in successfully concluding a proposed EU US free trade agreement may be even stronger.

Some agreements such as the Canada EU agreement provide that such requests for waivers must be made.

In addition, under the EU directive, it is necessary to indicate whether a framework agreement is involved.

With the Association agreement of 1963, a special relationship was established, culminating in the customs union of 1996.

32. Bulgaria attached great importance to its participation in multilateral economic cooperation, such as its free trade agreement with the States members of the European Free Trade Area (EFTA), the recent agreement of association with the European Community and the current negotiations on association with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

In a first bilateral agreement to resolve these difficulties, China and EU agreed in June 2005 on limitations on Chinese textile exports to EU for a three year period.

Almost nothing became too dear in this quest technology transfers, upgraded relations, association agreements, and even, reportedly, the prospect of joining the EU.

The US cannot reach a trade agreement or settle anti trust cases without the approval of the EU.

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This agreement, like most of those entered into by the EU, does not refer specifically to merger control.

Thus, his country had entered into an association agreement with the European Union and was actively preparing for membership.

Reinforcing this shift is Turkey s drift toward authoritarianism, which is undermining the viability of its candidacy for EU membership. As for Ukraine, recent gestures of solidarity, such as the signing of an association agreement, are unlikely to develop into anything substantial in the foreseeable future.

In the first half of 2005, Bosnia and Herzegovina moved closer to meeting the requirements which would allow the opening of negotiations with the European Union (EU) on a stabilization and association agreement and to become a member of the NATO Partnership for Peace.

The US cannot reach a trade agreement or settle anti trust cases without the approval of the EU Commission.

Moreover, the customs union makes it almost impossible for Russia to conclude any free trade agreement with the EU.