True, there are still significant benefits to EU membership.

确实，欧盟成员资格仍有显著的利益。

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Brussels is pleased by the establishment of a new ministry for European affairs, but more may be needed to reinvigorate Turkey's largely stalled EU membership talks.

布鲁塞尔因成立了新的欧洲事务部而感到高兴，但是可能更需要给土耳其大半被拖延的欧盟成员国谈判注入新的活力。

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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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"But it is an important election in the sense that they need to be free,fair and non violent in order for Macedonia to qualify for certain EU accession membership qualifications."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

And they are slowly losing Turkey,". There have been efforts within the EU to dilute the membership talks and redirect the cooperation between Turkey and the bloc to something less than full membership.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Newish parties wholeheartedly opposed to EU membership did well in two of the Union's biggest countries.

ECONOMIST: Unhappy voters send a message | The

What happens next revolves around a congress next week of the ruling Independence Party, a broad centre-right coalition hostile to EU membership.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

The Welsh Government's "appalling track record on inward investment" he said, hardly pointed to EU membership paving the way to success on that front.

BBC: Wales in Europe - via Griffithstown