Several new members have adopted reciprocal restrictions.

There are even some soldiers in the incoming class, too.

The idea being passed on through proselytizing, instead of through the gene line.

Demographically and strategically, Poland is by far the most important of the EU s new members.

Admission of new members will repeat the positive experience of the last enlargement round.

Welcoming the Dominican Republic and Thailand to membership in the Committee on Information,

The biggest remaining hurdle concerns the political will among today's EU members to set the actual dates for enlargement.

Financial integration could catapult financial development for new member countries, including through the advent of new financial instruments and services.

A specter is haunting the European Union s new members in Central Europe the specter of populist nationalism.

Many of the EU s newest members continue to grapple with questions of geopolitical trust.

But correcting this will become harder after new members have joined.

The EU will spend over 30billion euros integrating its new members into the Union.

But the EU s new member countries have no access to any safety net.

Most of the ten new members are much poorer than the old members, and are thus much less able or willing to pay large financial contributions.

One would add six new permanent members such as India, Brazil, Egypt, South Africa, Japan, and Germany as well as three two year members.

Among the EU s new members, English is rapidly replacing Russian as the most widely used foreign language.

On May 1, ten new nations joined the European Union, pushing its membership up to 25.

With the accession of 10 new members, the EU must become more integrated if it is to function.

Welcoming Cape Verde, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar and Qatar to membership in the Committee on Information,

But it is not at all clear that those governments that would normally support more integration can sell it to their disillusioned electorates.

Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were locked behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.

For decades they have created a zone where war has become unthinkable, where might is not right, where the poorer catch up with the richer.

Finally and perhaps most important is the problem of integrating the economies of the ten new member states into the euro area.

The European Union s new members from eastern and central Europe have been hit much harder by the crisis than the old member states they are also much less prepared to confront the situation psychologically and socially.

The evidence is the track record of the institutions and policies that enlargement will extend to new members.

2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to elect the additional members at its resumed organizational session for 2002.

Instead, it is now a military political alliance that sets democratic standards for new members and aspirants.

Statements by new EU members leaders at the summit indicated that they were aware of such a possibility. They were worried about the EU s future certainly more so than their Western counterparts.

The ruling coalitions can finally afford, at least temporarily, the luxury of populism that opposition parties used as their main weapon in the last few years.

In Eastern Europe, most new EU members banking sectors are owned by banks based elsewhere in the EU.

Former French President Jacques Chirac, with his seeming contempt for these new members, is gone.

Statements by new EU members leaders at the summit indicated that they were aware of such a possibility.

The main objective of the new prime ministers and cabinet members is to regain popularity for their parties.

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NATO added seven new members nations eager to contribute to the Alliance in powerful ways.

Indeed, since the US intervention in Iraq, many West Europeans see the EU's new members from Europe's East as something of a bloc.

To be sure, the EU's potential to induce economic dynamism, best seen in Ireland and Greece, attracts new members.

Making the Union s newest members carry a disproportionate share of the burden of reducing the EU s total amount of pollution is both unjust and foolish.

Latvia and other new EU members have little recourse but to challenge the European Commission in court.

But an EU with 10 new members simply cannot be run as it has for decades.

The coming accession of ten new members to the EU would be made much simpler were Europe to find its own equally flexible system.

The EU has been unable so far to transform its institutions and procedures in order to cope with the new members.

It is conceivable that the swarm of small new member states may revert to the traditional and logical predisposition towards federalism.

The new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe, in particular, have a big stake in how the issue plays out.

But embracing cosmopolitanism also means that once a society admits new members, those members are obliged to open themselves to their new society.