However, when it came to sharing the burden of emissions reduction among EU member states, the European Commission proposed in January 2008 to change the base year from 1990 to 2005.

Small and medium sized EU countries feel tricked.

Trade integration can be measured by the EU's share in a country's exports.

I accepted the decision that my country would become part of the EU.

After the establishment of the EU Chile free trade area, Chilean exports to the EU increased substantially.

This means that EU policy must be tailor made for individual countries.

Some values, long espoused by the Union, should be relatively easy to convey.

The convergence trend in the EU at the country level is reflected in the regions.

These countries are increasing their efforts to prepare for EU admission, and the EU must not shut its doors on them.

This cannot endanger any EU interests as the countries at issue now have far less than 1 of the EU market.

On both counts, the new member states expected to benefit substantially from the EU system.

Bulgaria s nearest EU members, however, seem to yearn for the Iron Curtain.

In Montenegro, the EU provided considerable support as its government stood up to Milosevic.

Rather, the two countries form a laboratory needed for the internal working of the EU.

With regard to IT production , the large EU countries lag far behind the US.

To be sure, all EU countries have a real interest in the fiscal sustainability of their fellow members.

Regardless, the country's politicians celebrated the entry into the EU online.

Perhaps more surprising is the apparent political backlash against the governments that have led countries into the EU.

It is for these reasons that countries outside the EU want to join.

Europe will enter an extended period of competitive deterrence, during which it will gradually abandon its old social values.

But it does not directly impinge upon the vital interests of any EU nation.

Sooner or later, someone will take EU countries to court over this.

Even a small fraction of the EU budget would far exceed the available resources of any individual country.

One option is for large EU countries to construct a bailout package.

Airlines from a number of countries also provide flights in and out of the country.

First, investors might be telling themselves that in the worst case scenario, the northern European countries will effectively push out the weaker countries, creating a super euro.

Given their experiences with the drawn out enlargement process, most candidate countries are leery about the motives of some large EU countries.

These are big numbers, but there is little or no reason for fear not if today's EU members prepare.

These and other EU members could rotate in the non permanent seats.

That is why EU member states have already received their own nationals and former residents from Guantánamo.

The stimulus must come from the EU, because individual countries will be under strict fiscal discipline.

One or two EU countries might object that this would mix institutional apples and oranges.

Entering the EU means integrating into a country s politics a logic dominated by the concept of reconciliation.

Since then, 69 countries, 22 of them members of the European Union, have recognized it as an independent country.

The three Benelux countries, along with a few other smaller EU nations, are opposed to the new European president being from a large nation.

EU countries will continue to demand energy, and Siberian deposits are far from exhausted.

For Turkey, tensions reflect the lack of progress on the country s application for EU membership.

The EU s members must above all recognize that Africa s ills have to be dealt with by Africans.

The modernizing transformation now taking place in Greece owes much to the country's EU membership.

France and Germany, by contrast, have an inherently strong fiscal position. So only the EU s strongest countries can really do anything against the sharply worsening recession.

Smaller and bigger EU members seem to be lining up in opposing camps.

The EU 15 promised an 8 reduction in GHG emissions by 2010.

So only the EU s strongest countries can really do anything against the sharply worsening recession.

But this is clearly problematic, as it puts the entire burden of refugees on the EU s frontier countries.

Once all these countries reach agreement with the EU there would automatically be free trade throughout the Balkans.