Social inclusion sharpens the MDG framework in the context of EU pre-accession countries such as BiH.
The local government district with the highest proportion of people born in European Union accession countries was Dungannon (6.8%).
Only the UK, Ireland and Sweden allowed free access from the start to workers from the eight 2004 accession countries, which included Poland, Latvia and Hungary.
The government has until the end of April to decide whether it wants to extend the Worker Registration Scheme for eight of the accession countries - excluding Romania and Bulgaria - until 2011.
But professor Dustmann believes they have compounded the error on Germany by counting only the number of people arriving in the UK from the 2004 accession countries, and ignoring those who subsequently returned home.
Furious at the snub, the Turks turned down the invitation (see article) and threatened to boycott goods and withdraw their application for membership by June if they were not added to the list of pre-accession countries.
But he told the committee that the numbers of people applying for the Worker Registration Scheme - which residents of the accession countries have to join if they want to work in the UK for more than a month - were falling.
But thanks to the growing opposition to Turkish accession in countries such as France and Austria, few Turks believe they will ever get in anyway.
The EIB also provides loans to projects in neighbouring "pre-accession" countries such as those of former Yugoslavia, and "neighbourhood" countries such as those in north Africa.
"Enlargement fatigue (in the EU) and accession fatigue (in aspirant countries) could seriously threaten the future of the enlargement agenda, " the peers said.
Having made 256 official overseas visits to 129 countries since her accession to the throne in 1952, the Queen would often use her dresses as surreptitious diplomatic tools.
When those countries got "accession" status in the EU in 2004, France, Germany and most of Old Europe banned their workers from coming in until the countries gained full-member status.
The accession process takes years, as countries have to fulfil a long list of requirements - economic, social and judicial.
This failure "led to a scramble to bring those countries up to speed after their accession, " committee chair Lord Boswell said.
The accession to the European Union of the ex-communist countries has brought laws on discrimination.
The Netherlands has previously voted to delay the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to Schengen, arguing that both countries need to step up measures against corruption and organised crime.
EU's summit in Gothenburg in June, he hopes that the Union will be able to offer the candidate countries what they most want a clear target date for their accession.
The European Parliament said that corruption, weak judicial systems and discrimination against minorities in the 12 countries seeking to join the European Union could make it difficult to pass accession legislation by the end of 2002 deadline.
There is talk among some applicant countries of regarding the Brussels deal as merely an opening position for the final stage of the accession negotiations.
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