The carrot of EU membership seems to have worked on countries heading towards accession.

欧盟成员的故萝卜似乎对有意向加入的国家起了作用。

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The hope is that the Poles will sustain this momentum to speed the accession of Serbia and other Balkan countries, says Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for communications.

国家通讯秘书佐尔坦•考瓦克斯表示：希望在于波兰将延续这种势头，从而加速塞尔维亚及其他巴尔干国家加入欧盟的进程。

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As with other Balkan countries, a negative opinion from the Hague may delay or block EU accession.

对于巴尔干半岛的其他国家来说，来自海牙任何一个否定意见都有可能使得他们加入欧盟的进程延误或停滞。

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But at the April 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest,Romania, member countries declined requests by both countries to begin the process of accession known as a "Membership Action Plan."

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Social inclusion sharpens the MDG framework in the context of EU pre-accession countries such as BiH.

UNESCO: Water

The local government district with the highest proportion of people born in European Union accession countries was Dungannon (6.8%).

BBC: Northern Ireland

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.

BBC: Polish signs in a shop window in London