This was enough to persuade the European Union to open membership talks with Turkey in 2005.
They dearly want the European Union to grant visa-free travel to Macedonians this year (and then open membership talks).
The European Commission will pronounce in the autumn and EU leaders will decide in December, when Montenegro also hopes for approval to open membership talks.
Brussels said it would open EU membership talks with Serbia if the country relinquished its de facto control over northern Kosovo.
Campaigners have challenged two land-owning charitable trusts to open up their membership to local residents.
He agreed that Iran could open talks on membership of the World Trade Organisation and import spare parts for its ageing fleet of civilian aircraft.
In Ukraine, Mrs Clinton told President Viktor Yanukovych that the door to potential Nato membership remained open.
Though privatisation and pension reform are not requirements for membership, open markets and equal treatment for foreign investors are.
It is my hope that when new membership slots open, women will be judged under the same standards as men.
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We want to make sure that NATO and EU membership remain open.
In its submission, the organisation has sought a number of changes including a review of charitable status of trusts which hold land and which have membership not open to the public.
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Although, the star of the Irish version of "Dragon's Den" has been open about his past membership of Fianna Fail he has tried to play it down during this campaign, emphasising his independent position.
If Augusta National admits it was prepared to make an offer but she wouldn't accept, it has admitted that membership is open to women, and it will immediately be asked who the next candidate will be and when.
The British public had "made the connection" between EU membership and "open-door immigration", he added.
Mr Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, said his candidate was "coming up on the rails", partly because people had "made the connection" between EU membership and "open-door immigration".
Membership is basically open to anyone.
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Medvedev stressed that Russia is an open market now and pointed to membership in the World Trade Organization as a indication of that.
Membership of the PMA is open to all, and its technical specifications are available to all members.
Membership of the PMA is open to all, and its technical specifications are available to all members at www.powermatters.org.
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That means open recognition of Northern Ireland's continued membership of the United Kingdom, for as long as it has a unionist majority.
Contrast this, for example, with the way the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences handles the Grammys: There, an executive committee is allowed to overrule the membership's nominations, leaving it open to charges that manipulations occur to get higher-wattage stars onto the TV broadcast.
Should Turkey fail to open its ports and airspace to the Greek-Cypriots, its own membership talks may stall.
Cottonwood had patiently assembled the land through open market purchases, aiming to build a new home for its burgeoning membership.
Individual rather an corporate membership produces within Keizai Doyukai an atmosphere relatively freer and more open to different points of view than that which prevails in Keidanren.
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The divisions in America's labour movement burst into the open last month, when several large unions representing over a third of its membership withdrew from the AFL-CIO, America's trade-union federation.
The European Union is demanding that East European countries open their financial markets in 1999 if they want to be seriously considered for membership, which is why Slovenia will try to privatise two banks.
China has become far more open legally because of commitments made to the World Trade Organisation as a condition of membership.
David Cameron will argue that it should follow a renegotiation of the terms of British membership to create what he will call "a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union".
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