The accession countries of East Central Europe all fulfilled the criteria Turkey is now following their example.

First, the use of EU institutional criteria must not be confused with the goal of EU accession.

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

During all these years, European governments consistently confirmed Turkey's eligibility for full membership, making accession dependent on compliance with membership criteria.

Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval, accession

Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession

Four criteria seem to be essential

Our criteria belong to the past.

Criteria for these choices were simple

Signature, ratification, acceptance, approval and accession

But here there was no sheep like criteria.

And they had certain criteria to do it.

The ECB s use of OMT satisfies both criteria.

3. This Convention is open to accession by all Member States of the United Nations. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary General.

If they comply, however, nothing must postpone accession.

4. Accession shall be effected by the deposit of an instrument of accession with the Secretary General of the United Nations.

Instead, the EU emphasized the technical criteria of membership.

Serbia s application for accession is precisely such an opportunity.

The Commission s conclusions, however, were clear it considers that Turkey sufficiently fulfills the political criteria and recommends that accession negotiations be opened. Were Europe s leaders to now balk at beginning accession talks with Turkey, they would not only contradict their own previous decisions they would also be in clear breach of the Union s repeated political commitments to Turkey.

The accession countries are already highly integrated with the EU economy, with pronounced cyclical convergence between the accession countries and the EMU countries.

So they have all the criteria that people normally like.

Not much has changed since accession talks began this October.

To make this body viable, realistic criteria must underpin its design.

Europe stands only to gain from continued accession negotiations over Serbia.

By nature and design, these negotiations must be directed at accession.

Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are in the queue for WTO accession.

There are as yet no Copenhagen criteria to guide constitution makers here.

Adaptation of the EU's economic criteria should focus on the following areas

Scientific appointments should rest on objective criteria of training, ability, and performance.

The final two criteria inflation and interest rates are also a mess.

Obviously, registration numbers after 20,000 were given based on strictly IQ criteria.

There may be a certain trade off between these two aspects, since the EU's accession criteria were defined at a time when the eurozone did not exist and when best practices in exchange rate and monetary policy regimes differed from current ones.

Overly strict qualification criteria are likely to deter members that may need this kind of support most from applying for it but overly loose criteria may stigmatize potential users.

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

Not surprisingly, accession untied politicians' hands, and conflicts came to the fore.

Deripaska is leading the campaign to slow Russia's accession to the WTO.

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

It has also provided the courage to open accession negotiations with Turkey.

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

2. The present Convention shall remain open for accession by any State.

But there must be no softening of the criteria for joining the euro.

Their first step should be to separate banks according to their compensation criteria.

It will heighten the difficulty of meeting the convergence criteria for euro adoption.

Using the criteria of The Global Innovation Index, ICT Pulse takes a look.

Russia s eventual accession to the World Trade Organization will be crucial to this development, and its accession needs to be promoted more actively by Europe as well as by Russia.