But China's accession to the WTO caused a big shock.
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Trump's accession to the presidency alarmed liberals on two levels.
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The dispute held up Croatia's accession to the EU. Only after both parties agreed to arbitration was Croatia granted entry to the European Union in 2013, nine years after Slovenia's accession to the bloc.
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The assumption of their accession to our policies will be gone.
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The dispute held up Croatian accession to the EU for many years.
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"Macedonian accession to NATO is one of Russia's worst nightmares," he added.
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The dispute risks complicating Croatia's accession to the Schengen border-free area.
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China's accession to the WTO also rapidly accelerated the offshoring of America's factories.
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China's accession to the WTO was supposed to be a great bonus for America.
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The best previous chance was in 2004, ahead of Cyprus's accession to the European Union.
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Mr Erdogan views accession to the EU as Turkey's right because of its strategic importance.
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China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 played an important part in this.
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This January, the Foreign Relations Committee recommended a vote to ratify Montenegro's accession to NATO.
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Brazil's accession to the OECD could also strengthen U.S. economic ties within the Western Hemisphere.
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Armenia's close relations with Russia have been strengthened further by Armenia's accession to the EEU.
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A resolution of the dispute would see Greece lift objection to Macedonia&aposs accession to NATO.
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The aim, says the government, was to stop Montenegro's accession to NATO, which is nearly complete.
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Trump's accession to the White House in 2016 came as a shock to much of America.
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He also said that the summit would also address Turkey's hopes for accession to EU club.
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Others worry it will only slow their accession to the EU, or worse still replace it.
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Some of that increase would have occurred without accession to the WTO, and without an undervalued currency.
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Montenegro is small, but its accession to NATO is a big defeat for Russia in the Balkans.
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Such moves send a signal to Moscow, which would view Swedish accession to NATO as a challenge.
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It wasn't until 1985, ahead of Spain's accession to the EU, that Spain finally reopened the border.
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That sense of frustration, even betrayal, set the stage for the accession to power of Donald Trump.
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Mr. Paul and Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, both opposed Montenegro's accession to NATO last year.
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It plans a pro-EU protest for May 1, the 13th anniversary of Hungary's accession to the bloc.
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Accession to the bloc has been a powerful driver of political and democratic reform in post-communist countries.
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It foreshadowed Turkey's accession to NATO six years later and the stationing of American troops across the country.
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The developments fueled speculation that Prince Mohammed might be positioning himself to announce his accession to the throne.
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One such was the accession to the EU of low-cost neighbours, including Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
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Montenegro claims that Russia was behind an alleged coup attempt last November aimed at stalling its accession to NATO.
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"The prize for the winner is temporary accession to limited political power, not the satisfaction of vendettas," Krauthammer wrote.
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Britain's accession to the European Economic Community in 1973 brought another set of employment rights, including more paid holidays.
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"We have a lot we want to tackle with Turkey," including accession to the European Union, Mr. Schäfer said.
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Indeed, everything changed with Mr. Sisi's accession to power in 2013, which ushered in a new, more repressive era.
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King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz's accession to the throne in 2015 led to the rise of Prince Mohammed.
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The dispute, which centers on the bay of Piran, held up Croatian accession to the EU for many years.
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Macedonia has been a candidate for accession to the EU since 2005, and was once regarded as a model pupil.
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For that reason, it's time for Washington to make clear that Ukrainian accession to NATO is not on the table.
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There are two critical measures by which we can assess how China's 2001 accession to WTO has undermined Western economies.
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To Mr. Trump, Mr. Conte's accession to power was further evidence of the consequences of a tide of illegal immigrants.
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Snapshot: Above, Emperor Naruhito of Japan spoke after his accession to the throne at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo today.
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Turkey wants the EU to open new chapters of its long stalled talks on accession to the 28-nation bloc.
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Snapshot: Above, a salute for the 67th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne on Wednesday in London.
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Bill Clinton's administration pushed for NAFTA and Chinese accession to the World Trade Organization over the objections of labor unions.
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The key was the accession to the EU, and now it's become increasing apparent that they won't let Turkey in.
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While there, Mattis accused Russia attempting to interfere in a referendum that would clear the path for Macedonia's accession to NATO.
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Russia was desperate to prevent Montenegro's accession to NATO, and knew that the United States strongly supported Montenegro's bid for membership.
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Since China's accession to the World Trade Organization 15 years ago, its progress in reforming its economy has been disappointingly slow.
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Many Croats have left the country to work in more affluent EU countries since Croatia's accession to the bloc in 2013.
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Merkel also used her 'State of Germany' address to discuss other key EU issues, including Turkey's proposed accession to the union.
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For Mr Markovic the meeting was supposed to be a celebratory preparation for Montenegro's formal accession to the alliance on June 5th.
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Russia, he says, is stirring the Balkan pot; the best way out is to accelerate Macedonia's accession to the EU and NATO.
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The two main academic papers on this question looked at the years around China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.
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Part of the reason its accession to the EU has got nowhere has been the EU's muddled, many-headed set of policies.
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In 2004, on the eve of the island's accession to the European Union, a UN reunification plan was put to a referendum.
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Regardless, their formal accession to NATO would bolster an organization that can, and should, be a major pillar of 21st century security.
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Enmity and suspicion between Greece and Turkey was not erased by their joint accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1952.
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Yet, the migrant deal cannot disguise the reality that the likelihood of Turkey's eventual accession to the EU has diminished over the years.
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Ms Szydlo nominated Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, an obscure member of the European Parliament who helped negotiate Poland's EU accession, to replace Mr Tusk.
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That's because jobs lost to events like China's 2001 accession to the WTO are already gone, and new tariffs won't bring them back.
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It was in the EU's interests for countries in the West Balkans to have the prospect of accession to the bloc, she said.
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Seven hundred and seventy Buddhist monks led a religious ceremony today honoring the king of Thailand's accession to the throne 26 years ago.
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That trend was strengthened by its accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which the U.S. had actively lobbied for.
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The negotiations over Turkey's accession to the European Union galvanized efforts to enshrine gender equality into the Turkish Constitution in the early 2000s.
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A growing body of research is confirming the Trumpian view that allowing China's accession to the WTO had negative effects on the U.S. economy.
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Absent Washington's willingness to play a game of nuclear chicken with Moscow, Ukraine's accession to NATO weakens American national security rather than enhancing it.
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His chief strategic goal now, he says, is to secure Serbian accession to the European Union—while maintaining good relations with Russia, of course.
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My thought bubble: China has benefited enormously from its accession to the WTO and it does not want global trading disrupted by anyone else.
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Since Trump's accession to the presidency, McCain (or, as his illness worsened, his press office) had repeatedly criticized Trump on a variety of grounds.
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Austria has opposed Turkey's accession to the European Union, and has angered the Turkish government by barring Turkish politicians from campaigning in the country.
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Rimsevics added that some Latvian banks "wanted blood" after their activities were restricted in the wake of the country's accession to the euro zone.
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Less than a decade ago, the country was considered on the fast track for accession to the EU — a process that stalled in recent years.
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Its share of global exports has risen to 13% today from 4% on the eve of its accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001.
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He first joined politics when he became deputy finance minister in 2006-2010, helping oversee the country's accession to the euro zone in January 2009.
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The United States in particular pushed for China's accession to the World Trade Organization, which ultimately served as an inflection point in China's economic growth.
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It was the promise of accession to the EU (and to NATO, which is going ahead) that helped Mr Zaev push through Prespa at home.
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Since his accession to the Party Secretary position in 2012, Xi Jinping has consistently taken an ideological line stronger than any party leader since Mao.
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Moscow had made no secret of its opposition to Macedonia's accession to NATO during months of United Nations-mediated negotiations leading to the landmark agreement.
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He was energetically pursuing Turkey's accession to the European Union and his government was making substantial institutional and human rights reforms to meet European standards.
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Were the Trump administration to change course and support India's accession to APEC, it would be seen as a major gesture to the Modi government.
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Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, published a stinging rebuke of his own tribe for facilitating Donald Trump's accession to the White House.
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On February 19th the country's state prosecutor accused Russian "state organs" of having masterminded the plot in order to prevent the country's imminent accession to NATO.
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The U.K. now has the possibility of correcting mistakes committed over the last 43 years by allowing a creeping accession to the EU's centralized power structures.
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Upon his accession to the throne, King Louis gifted Marie Antoinette her own chateau in the middle of the estate's gardens, known as the Petit Trianon.
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The successful campaign for Britain to leave the European Union warned of the hordes of immigrants that would result from Turkey's imminent accession to the union.
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Last year saw unusually fast paced liberal measures being introduced, however, including Vietnam's accession to multilateral free-trade accords, including the U.S.-led Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Even before her accession to the post of prime minister, May was contributing to the current political climate and to the problems that pulled her down.
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With his wife, Empress Masako, seated on an adjacent pavilion (the michodai) proclaimed his accession to the throne and offered a personal pledge to the nation.
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Aho became Finland's youngest-ever Prime Minister in 1991, aged just 36, and went on to preside over Finland's accession to the European Union in 1995.
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Their accession to the protesters was a marked contrast to their treatment of the antigovernment protesters who have been demonstrating outside the Green Zone for months.
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The bill would require the "gold standard" in any 85033 Agreement with the Saudis, as well as the accession to the Additional Protocol with the IAEA.
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Orban said more Hungarians had rejected the migrant quotas than had voted for European Union membership in a referendum ahead of Hungary's 2004 accession to the bloc.
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New Thailland 70 baht currency notes (US $1.99 ) are displayed to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's accession to the throne in Bangkok, Thailand.
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China had expected to win the status of a market economy in December, 15 years after its accession to the World Trade Organisation, but the West refused.
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There was nothing disastrous about Teddy Roosevelt's accession to the presidency after William McKinley's assassination, but it did represent an unplanned shift in the nation's ideological trajectory.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France considers it is too early to open talks with Balkan countries on accession to the European Union, a French presidency official said on Tuesday.
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Montenegro's Prime Minister Dusko Markovic and Foreign Minister Srdjan Darmanović presented US State Department undersecretary Thomas Shannon with Montenegro's instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty.
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The last military dictatorship, from 1967 to 1974, was followed by accession to the European Union and the longest period of peace and prosperity in Greece's history.
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Another fact I like to put into the mix ... is when China was granted accession to the WTO back in 2001, it was the fifth-largest economy.
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It suggests the king is keeping the new unilateral power of the young prince - accrued soon after his father's accession to the throne in January 2015 - in check.
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On October 16th Montenegro's authorities said that on election day they had halted a Kremlin-backed coup, which aimed to stall the country's almost completed accession to NATO.
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One possibility is a country whose trading patterns were perhaps more disrupted than any other's by Britain's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973: New Zealand.
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This follows on its successful bid in 2011 to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and subsequent accession to a number of international agreements.
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"Scotland's accession to the EFTA and then the EEA would not be deliverable and, importantly, would require the consent of all EFTA and EU member states," Davis wrote.
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Their attempts to portray Turkey's accession to the EU as imminent and a done deal were deeply misleading; but their biggest lie of all has been about money.
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"Since her brother's accession to the supreme leadership of (North Korea), Kim Yo Jong has been routinely observed attending Kim Jong Un's public appearances," NK Leadership Watch said.
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Asked about the possibility of Turkey joining the European Union, Osborne also said he did not believe the country's accession to the bloc was likely any time soon.
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Rights groups, however, say those improvements might be short-lived and designed to ensure its smooth accession to multilateral trade agreements, including a pact with the European Union.
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"I am sorry to see that many regard this process as a technical one when it is rather about accession to a way of living together," Juncker said.
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It was brought into the private sector in earnest in 2001 — just on the heels of China's accession to the W.T.O. — and extended after the 2002 party congress.
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Germany announced a reorientation of its policy toward Turkey, calling for a slowdown of talks for Turkey's accession to the European Union and the suspension of financial programs.
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America's markets were opened up, first to Mexico, through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and then to China, through its permanent accession to the World Trade Organisation.
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They note that, for most countries (including Britain), EU membership has not had much impact: accession to the club has more often than not been followed by slower growth.
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Brexit is less than 150 days away, but to join the EEA requires accession to the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), a process that could take months or years.
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Li was quoted as telling Merkel, "We hope Germany pushes the EU to duly fulfill the relevant promises" laid out in the document on China's accession to the WTO.
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He said some Latvian banks "wanted blood" after their business activities were reined in under an independent audit of the sector that followed Latvia's accession to the euro zone.
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Serbia refuses to recognize independence of Kosovo, its former province, but it has committed to EU-supported talks in order to accelerate its own accession to the EU bloc.
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Mnangagwa's leadership of the Joint Operations Command kept him in good stead with the country's security forces, whose support paved the way for his impending accession to the presidency.
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Anti-corruption efforts have earned Romania praise from the European Commission, which reviews the country's governance each year as a condition of its accession to the European Union in 2007.
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This perception of China was compounded by its decision in June to oppose India's accession to the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a 48-nation body that governs the global nuclear trade.
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"Such rhetoric ... was distancing Serbia from endorsing European value and its accession to the European family," the Croatian foreign ministry said in the note carried by the Hina news agency.
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In response to a question about Turkey's possible future accession to the bloc, he said the German government had major doubts about whether it should become a full EU member.
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Accession to, and membership of, the EU has supported the sovereign ratings of the V4 (Poland (A-/Stable), Hungary (BBB-/Stable), the Czech Republic (A+/Stable) and Slovakia (A+/Stable)).
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Kavanaugh's accession to the high court will infect it with even deeper partisanship, afflict it with disrespect, call into question the legitimacy of its judgments and denigrate a vital institution.
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The longest stretch of stability came with accession to the European Union, followed, since 2010, by an economic collapse longer and deeper than the Great Depression in the United States.
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"With all the necessary precautions, Italy's accession to a new silk route represents an opportunity for our country," Conte told a foreign policy seminar in the northern city of Genoa.
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The OVP and FPO went into government together in 2000, which prompted the rest of the EU to impose short-lived sanctions on Austria over the FPO's accession to power.
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The incumbent emerged in the lead following a 97-minute duel, which focused on the European migrant crisis, Turkey's accession to the EU, and the handling of President Donald Trump.
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In Paul Blustein's recent book on China, "Schism," U.S.-China trade veteran Tim Stratford recalls a discussion with Shi Guangsheng, the negotiator for China's accession to the World Trade Organization.
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By contrast, the private secretary to Prince Charles, Clive Alderton, is a formidable former ambassador to Morocco who is expected to help the prince navigate his accession to the throne.
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Because of a quirk in Turkey's accession to the UN refugee convention of 2000, only Europeans fleeing war or persecution are considered "refugees"; instead, the 21m have been offered temporary protection.
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Too often, he thinks, bad deals, like the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and China's accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), have destroyed American jobs and created American losers.
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But Serbian officials may be less concerned about their countrymen than about taking steps towards recognising Kosovo—and thus making their own hoped-for accession to the European Union (EU) easier.
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The European Parliament called for talks over Turkey's accession to the European Union to be suspended if it implemented the new constitution — a decision rejected by Turkey's EU minister, Ömer Çelik.
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Trade plays a huge role in the plunge of manufacturing jobs, he says, with China's 2001 accession to the WTO a major factor in convincing American employers to move jobs there.
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The EU investigation begins just days before the 15th anniversary of China's accession to the World Trade Organization, when the country says new trade defense rules are supposed to kick in.
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From the moment of her accession to the throne in 1558, Elizabeth began seeking diplomatic, commercial and military ties with Muslim rulers in Iran, Turkey and Morocco — and with good reasons.
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"But if I become Commission president, then I will instruct the offices in Brussels to end the talks with Turkey on accession to the European Union," he said to rapturous applause.
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"From now on we will maintain Turkey's perspective for a full accession to the EU, but we expect the bloc to avoid double standards in the fight against terrorism," he said.
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Fox is in Singapore where he is attempting to strengthen trade relationships and make the case for the U.K.'s accession to the Comprehensive & Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
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Analyses of China's accession to the WTO suggest that the reduction in uncertainty about tariff rates, rather than falling tariffs themselves, accounted for more than a third of subsequent growth in exports.
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ISTANBUL, Oct 4 (Reuters) - A referendum on accession to the European Union may suit Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, adding that he would discuss taking such a step with colleagues.
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Turkey is a NATO ally and a candidate for accession to the EU. Its intelligence can help Europeans fight terrorism; it hosts millions of refugees who might otherwise seek sanctuary in Europe.
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Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, which was oversold to the U.S. public with promises that trade would lead to motherhood and apple pie in China, these problems only grew.
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He oversaw a narrowing of Slovakia's public deficit, targeted to fall to zero this year and, as a deputy finance minister, helped guide its accession to the euro zone in January 2009.
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Meanwhile, Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who came to power a year ago, wants to accelerate his country's accession to NATO and the EU to boost international support for his fragile coalition.
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Duterte has also said the Philippines' ICC membership might be invalid on a domestic level, because Manila's 2011 accession to the ICC's Rome Statute was not announced in the country's official gazette.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Most Germans think the European Union should scrap a landmark migration deal with Turkey, also scuppering negotiations on its accession to the bloc, according to a poll published on Sunday.
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In August, Greece angrily accused Russia of meddling before an important vote in the Greek Parliament on a name change for Macedonia that would clear the way for its accession to NATO.
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BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia should seek a partition agreement with neighboring Kosovo in order to end a dispute that is hampering Belgrade's accession to the European Union, the Serbian defense minister said on Tuesday.
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In fact, Le Pen's accession to the second round is no so much a victory for the FN, but rather a striking defeat for the mainstream elite and their lazy approach to politics.
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Since Xi's appointment as vice-chairman in 2008, and especially after his accession to the chairmanship and presidency in 2012, Xi Jinping has given every indication of an interest in overturning this model.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's top court ruled on Friday that it had no jurisdiction to settle a border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia, complicating Croatia's accession to the Schengen free-travel area.
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Thus, the creation of a one-time holiday this year on May 250 to mark Prince Naruhito's accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne automatically creates two national holidays on April 22 and May 213.
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Albert, for example, would be a reference to Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, and also to Queen Elizabeth II's father, King George VI, who was known as Albert until his accession to the throne.
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One shining exception to Romania's sorry state has been the National Anti-corruption Directorate, or DNA, which drew strength from the anti-corruption conditions attached to the country's accession to the EU in 2007.
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Bannon's accession to the National Security Council in February demonstrated the breadth of his power inside the White House, signaling that the former head of Brietbart News' influence extended beyond politics and domestic policy.
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The Communist Party of Vietnam had to find a new "revolution" to peddle to its people, so it promised growth and abundance, heralding projects like its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2005.
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The high-stakes power grab has placed sweeping powers in the hands of the 32-year-old Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MbS, and appears designed to speed his accession to the throne.
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Without buy-in from Westminster, Scotland's referendum would be a repeat of Catalonia's independence referendum in 2017, and if the Scots voted to leave the UK, accession to the EU would be a nonstarter.
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"On the occasion of the forty fifth national day of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the seventeenth anniversary of his majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa's accession to the throne," the invitation reads.
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He also said that Turkish requests to open new "chapters" of its long stalled negotiation on accession to the EU would be considered and said that would need the agreement of EU member states.
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Russia is still grumbling about the name change in nearby Macedonia that should pave the way for its accession to the European Union and NATO, a clear loss in the Balkans for the Kremlin.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union outsider nations courting accession to the club face dimmer prospects after French President Emmanuel Macron refused to countenance further enlargement until the bloc speeds decision-making and restores its credibility.
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Privatisation and restructuring of its docks was a key requirement for Croatia's accession to the EU in 2013 as the government had to stop providing subsidies and prepare its shipyards to survive on the market.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski said on Tuesday that he expects Spain, the final country needed to ratify its North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) accession, to be ready to do so in March.
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The vote will be a crucial test of popular support for Vucic government's economic reforms and a bid to speed up accession to the European Union, while maintaining close ties with allies Russia and China.
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Turkey, a candidate for accession to the European Union, is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State fighters who have seized territory in neighboring Syria and Iraq, some of it directly abutting Turkey.
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Turkey, a candidate for accession to the European Union, is part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State fighters who have seized territory in neighbouring Syria and Iraq, some of it directly abutting Turkey.
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Privatization and restructuring of its docks was a key requirement for Croatia's accession to the EU in 2013 as the government had to stop providing subsidies and prepare its shipyards to survive on the market.
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Several months ago, many in the Republican Party — including me — would have been willing to bet that Trump's accession to the front-runner post and now ultimately the GOP nomination would have never been possible.
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While the government has yet to announce a date for the prince's formal accession to the throne, two senior military sources with knowledge of the matter said on Monday it was expected on Dec. 1.
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The rise of Podemos has triggered an existential crisis within a Socialist party that considers itself the architect of modern Spain, particularly after it oversaw the nation's accession to the European Union in the 1980s.
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A draft decision discussed by the diplomats said that in light of Turkey's "continued and new illegal drilling activities" the bloc should reduce funding linked to Ankara's long-stalled talks for accession to the union.
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Among these were the rules of the World Trade Organization and China's accession to it in 2000, which set off an out-migration of pharmaceutical production — a mainstay of the island's economy — and other manufacturing.
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U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York that Syria had submitted instruments of accession to the Paris climate deal and that the move would enter into force for the country on Dec. 13.
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"The kingdom's accession to the group will enhance its role in international forums and will highlight its efforts in the area of combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism," the authority said in a statement.
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"It takes at least another three years" to adopt the euro from when Bulgaria joins the ERM-2, Dombrovskis said, effectively setting the date for Sofia's accession to the euro zone at not before mid-2022.
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The high-stakes power grab has placed sweeping powers in the hands of MbS and appears designed to speed his accession to the throne, though he still has to win over powerful relatives, clerics and tribesmen.
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Why it matters for workers: There's good evidence that allowing China's accession to the WTO fifteen years ago was the trade policy decision that most led to joblessness and stagnant incomes, specifically in the manufacturing sector.
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The terms of China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 allowed other WTO members to use a third country's prices to assess whether Chinese goods were being sold below cost or fair market value.
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Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India, even as a quasi-independent state, was a blow to the very idea upon which Pakistan had been founded: that Muslims on the subcontinent belonged together in their own homeland.
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Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India, even as a quasi-independent state, was a blow to the very idea upon which Pakistan had been founded: that Muslims on the subcontinent belonged together in their own homeland.
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Since the United States has historically pushed back against Iranian accession to the WTO, the lawmakers asked for clarity as to where the Obama administration stands and will they oppose Iran joining the global trade body.
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Duterte said it was doubtful the ICC had jurisdiction in the Philippines because its accession to the ICC's Rome Statute in 2011 had never been announced in the country's official gazette, as required to be considered lawful.
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Because of that association, he was barred from attending key ceremonies involving the Dutch Royal House, including his daughter's 2002 marriage to then Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, as well as Willem-Alexander's 2013 accession to the throne.
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"Biodiversity can help us face the impacts of climate change," said FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva in a statement marking the U.S. accession to the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
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Elected officials like Mr. Khan must sign a declaration before they can run for office stating that they "believe in the ideology of Pakistan" and in Kashmir's eventually accession to become a formal part of that country.
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The parties also said they did not want to close any chapters in Turkey's talks on accession to the European Union nor open any new chapters given the state of democracy and human rights in that country.
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Before talks began in 2005 Mr Erdogan used the popular prospect of accession to anchor domestic reforms, such as scrapping the death penalty and allowing Kurdish-language broadcasts, and to shove the meddlesome army back in the barracks.
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Mr Meciar, meanwhile, tightened his grip and ruled as a semi-authoritarian strongman, slowing the progress of his country's accession to the European Union and briefly making it a regional pariah, until he was democratically displaced in 1998.
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Fundamental constitutional rules on matters such as the succession to the crown, the powers of the House of Lords, the relationship between England and Scotland, and accession to the European Union itself, are written down as parliamentary statutes.
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In December, 15 years after China's accession to the World Trade Organization, the European Union, the United States and Japan formally refused to grant Beijing the coveted label, denying it important concessions on tariffs and other trade restrictions.
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In 2008 it in effect vetoed an invitation to Macedonia to join NATO, and in recent years it has prevented Macedonia from opening negotiations on accession to the EU. In June, however, the two governments struck a historic compromise.
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In a brief statement, SoftBank suggested that a disagreement over the timing of his accession to CEO is the reason for his departure: Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SBG, had been considering Arora as a strong candidate for succession.
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Monday's "We Belong to Europe" protest, held on the 13th anniversary of Hungary's accession to the European Union, was organized by Momentum, a new, youth-led political movement that says it plans to contest the next elections in April.
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"In addition to further empowering and enriching Iran's tyrannical regime, Iranian accession to the WTO could seriously complicate our ability to combat Iran's support for terrorism, human rights violations, ballistic missile program and other illicit activity," the lawmakers wrote.
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Supporters of statehood, including Rosselló and Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R), have bet the island's future on accession to the United States, and blame Puerto Rico's economic and developmental woes on what they call the current colonial status.
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Five of the states that currently have nuclear weapons – the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China – have already committed to this objective through their accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons of 1970.
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The French services assess that Syria did not declare all of its stockpiles and capacities to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) during its late, half-hearted accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in October 2013.
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Weber lashed out at Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for having told Turkey he would help it join the EU after he had used the prospect of Turkish accession to urge British voters to leave the bloc to avoid immigration by Turks.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India on Monday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's comments that it had linked its accession to the Paris climate control accord to receiving foreign aid and said it was committed to protecting the environment on its own.
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Despite his sometimes disparaging remarks about Turkey, including a crude limerick about President Tayyip Erdogan and demands in 2016 that Britain veto Turkey's accession to the European Union, Johnson is affectionately referred to as "Boris the Turk" by some Turkish media.
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China is seeking to be fully declared a market economy on the 15th anniversary of its accession to the World Trade Organization in December, a move that could significantly reduce the anti-dumping duties levied on Chinese goods around the world.
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So when, as seems likely, not all the world's big economies grant China "market-economy status" by the 2166th anniversary of its accession to the World Trade Organisation in late 32015, China will cry foul and an almighty row will ensue.
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Under the agreement between the European Union and Turkey, Ankara has agreed to accept refugees turned back from Greece in exchange for more aid and reopening talks on Turkey's accession to the E.U. Ms. Merkel allowed the case to proceed.
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This is what SDSM believed it was doing when it signed the June agreement with Greek representatives, which stipulated that Greece would stop blocking its accession to supranational organizations and Macedonia would call itself "North Macedonia," both internationally and locally.
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"The fact that this meeting is timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of Kim's accession to power may mean that it will seek to underline his achievements and supremacy," said Kevin Gray, senior lecturer at the University of Sussex.
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The decrees also included the appointment of three deputy governors from among the descendants of Princes Ahmed, Talal and Muqrin - brothers of King Salman, some of whom may have felt sidelined by changes since his accession to the throne in 2015.
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Previous US administrations have also accused Pyongyang of developing biological weapons, with a 2004 report from the Deputy Director of National Intelligence saying that after its accession to the BWC in 1987, North Korea continued to pursue research in this area.
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The French services assess that Syria did not declare all of its stockpiles and capacities to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) during its late, half-hearted accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in October 2013.
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The Royal Mail issued a stamp worth 5 pounds, or about $6.25, to mark her accession to the throne, and ranges of special jubilee coins have been cast by the Royal Mint to mark the occasion, with one worth about £50,000.
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A United Nations biography says Mr. Rashid worked in his country's foreign ministry and describes him as "a catalyst" in Bangladesh's accession to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption and the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh.
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Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has promised to boost the economy and accelerate the country's accession to NATO and the European Union, moves that have so far been blocked by its neighbor and EU-member Greece in a row over Macedonia's name.
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"Our accession to the European Union depends on the dialogue with Pristina and whether one day we will manage to reach a deal," Vucic said, adding that he expected Germany, France or the EU to become more active in the negotiating process.
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The weakness of the non-oil sector was partly due to the fact that the first quarter of 2015 was unusually strong; in January that year, King Salman awarded public employees two months' extra salary to mark his accession to the throne.
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Bild am Sonntag newspaper Turkish accession to the EU "will not fail due to a lack of willingness on the part of EU members but rather due to Turkey not wanting to introduce European standards".
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The projected drop is partly because sales were unusually high in the first quarter of 2015, hitting 1.9 billion riyals ($507 million) as King Salman granted a bonus of two months' salary to state employees to mark his accession to the throne.
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Duterte's spokesman, Harry Roque, said the ICC was "siding with the enemies of the president", while Duterte's legal counsel Salvador Panelo said the accession to the Rome Statute in 2011 was never announced in the Philippines official gazette, thus did not apply.
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Bin Nayef, meanwhile, has maintained a low profile since his accession to the nation's number-two post and the contrast between his quiet attitude and his cousin's high profile has been widely commented on at home, the Brookings Institution said in a 2016.
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Although he did not explicitly say so, Mr. Erdogan's remarks suggested that Turkey might cancel the agreement and allow migrant flows to resume into Europe as before if the bloc went further in finally suspending formal talks on Turkey's accession to the union.
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Lack of trust from other countries, meanwhile, will be a huge hurdle for the Trump administration if it actually does try to move forward with redesigning the TPP as a condition of its accession to meet the needs of the United States.
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The decline is partly because sales were unusually high in the first quarter of 2015, when they hit 1.9 billion riyals ($507 million) as King Salman granted a bonus of two months' salary to state employees to mark his accession to the throne.
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Had TPP gone into effect, it would not have done nearly as much as NAFTA or China's accession to the WTO did to reduce the costs and frictions that other countries face when they ship their manufactured goods to the United States.
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This was hit hard by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which removed Puerto Rico's privileged access to pharmaceuticals markets in the US, then China's accession to the WTO in 2000, and the repeal of certain US tax breaks for corporations investing in the island.
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China's accession to the World Trade Organization had unleashed a flood of textile imports across U.S. borders, and Ross - now President-elect Donald Trump's pick for commerce secretary - took an unusual hands-on approach, advocating for "safeguard" tariffs to help the ravaged domestic industry.
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Balkan countries like Serbia, their accession to the EU years away, may be tempted to see China as a geopolitical hedge against Europe, even though most have little to offer beyond their position on the "Balkan Silk Road" between Piraeus and Europe's rich heartlands.
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Cyprus, a country divided into Greek and Turkish parts, is especially not happy with the prospect (albeit distant) of Turkish accession to the EU. Anti-immigration parties across Europe are also not happy with the deal, saying it doesn't do enough to discourage migrants.
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Nevertheless, it is undeniable that China is much richer as a whole than it used to be, and this is largely thanks to the economic reform, including lowering its tariffs and liberalizing some sectors of the economy, that accompanied China's accession to the WTO.
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"It has manifest violations which could even justify the use of the expedited procedure for dispute settlement in the WTO," said De Baere, who has also advised governments on accession to the WTO and negotiations on new WTO deals as well as fighting trade cases.
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Tillerson's support for Colombia's accession to the OECD and his commitment to help with the "technical issues" required to get there sent a very positive message, but helping Colombia see the virtue in following through, not backsliding, on its trade commitments will require sustained focus.
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To be eligible for accession to NATO in 1999, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic had to demonstrate their progress towards implementing market-based economies; all three are now key investment targets for U.S. and NATO allies, creating jobs both at home and abroad.
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The paranoia of the Trump campaign has found expression in the accusation that the Republican establishment in the primaries and now Hillary Clinton and her allies in the general election are committed to rigging the vote to prevent Trump's rightful accession to the White House.
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Basil eventually would become Emperor of Byzantium, murdering the very man who admired his wrestling prowess, and despite his ruthless accession to power, his reign marked the beginning of the Macedonian period in the Byzantine Empire and the cultural and political renaissance that followed.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Flag-waving supporters cheered French centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen's accession to the second round of France's presidential elections on Sunday night as downcast supporters of France's two main traditional parties quietly slipped out of their near-empty headquarters.
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In exchange for visa-free travel for some of its citizens, €6 billion ($7 billion) in refugee aid and revived talks on possible future accession to the EU, Turkey was to take back migrants who had made their way to Greece and try to secure its borders.
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It was possible to pass the post of king from brother to brother in order of age when there were only 36 brothers who lived to adulthood, and that is what the Saudis have been doing since 1953 until King Salman's accession to the throne in 2015.
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She had uncommon social media savvy and cut a fantastic video while waging a campaign that did a brilliant job of both channeling long-simmering national progressive disgruntlement with the idea of Crowley's eventual accession to the speakership and emphasizing her greater rootedness in the district as currently conceived.
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Responding to a March 31 executive order by Trump for a review of the U.S. trade deficit, Mexico said its trade surplus with the United States was misunderstood and that the real hit to U.S. manufacturing jobs came with China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.
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President Trump ratified Montenegro's accession to NATO Tuesday morning, and a White House statement reveals that Trump is open to further expanding the alliance — which he called "obsolete" days before his inauguration: Why this matters: The Kremlin has openly argued against the expansion of NATO, so this could ruffle their feathers.
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One paper, by Kyle Handley and Nuno Limão, found that the extra trading certainty associated with China's accession to the WTO lowered American manufacturing sales and employment by more than 1%, but also lowered American prices and raised consumers' incomes by the equivalent of a 13-percentage-point cut in tariffs.
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In a blistering 35-page report submitted to the U.S.-China Security Economic and Security Review Commission in 2010, Lighthizer systematically dismantles the arguments made by proponents of China's accession to the WTO, and points to evidence of China's mercantilism that has come at the expense of the United States.
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The speech was being staged at the F.D.R. memorial on New York City's Roosevelt Island, and though Wong is a political operative of atypical modesty — she describes herself as a former schoolteacher whose accession to minor power has been entirely accidental — she had taken the choice of venue as auspicious.
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European leaders have voiced concern over Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown on suspected dissidents after a failed coup attempt month, identifying his idea of reintroducing the death penalty in Turkey as a red line barring accession to the EU. Kern sharpened the critical rhetoric in an interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF.
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Brazil would benefit immensely from the support of the United States for its accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a move that would shape the country's economic reform agenda and set Brazil's future on a clear path toward a market-oriented economy and private sector-led development.
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Those who had said they would vote Pirate in the aftermath of Panama said that they had tired of the party's refusal to commit to policy positions, from the big (whether Iceland should reopen negotiations for accession to the European Union) to the small (whether supermarkets should be allowed to sell alcohol).
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Since China's accession to WTO in 2001, the Chinese Communist Party has cemented its grip on power, turned previously-weak SOEs into global behemoths that dominate the world's manufacturing system and grown its economy to twice the size that was anticipated under even the rosiest of scenarios produced by the World Bank.
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On Monday Greece accused Turkey of violating international law and said its "provocative conduct" was inconsistent with that of a country seeking accession to the EU. "We call on Turkey to desist from further unlawful actions and to comply with its obligations stemming from international law," the foreign ministry in Athens said in a statement.
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It managed its after-sales process well: even after the government lifted the ban on direct selling ten years ago after China's accession to the WTO, Amway sponsored a fellowship that sent rising stars of the Communist Party to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, with a handy stopover at Amway's headquarters in Ada, Michigan.
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Western Europeans often overlook the distinct national character of the post-1989 revolutions and how that defined the region's accession to the EU. For many westerners the point of the EU is to bind countries into a peace project that also delivers economic benefits by obliging them to pool sovereignty; "nationalism" thus becomes a dirty word.
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Consequently, January 2017 will probably become a memorable month: The one that marks the accession to power of a U.S. President who is aiming to take - at least partially - his country off the world stage: The wall with Mexico; quitting the Transpacific Free Trade Agreement; focusing on domestic economic affairs; disengaging from Europe and vague threats about NATO.
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Ever since my accession to the throne, I have carried out the acts of the emperor in matters of state, and at the same time I have spent my days searching for and contemplating on what is the desirable role of the emperor, who is designated to be the symbol of the state by the Constitution of Japan.
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"The UK thanks all of the GPA parties for having engaged so constructively with us in recent weeks and for the consensus today for the agreement in principle around the UK's accession to the GPA on the basis of our final market access offer of Oct 3," Britain's ambassador to the WTO, Julian Braithwaite, told Reuters.
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The "Out" campaign played on voters' fears about immigration by warning of dire consequences if Turkey, a largely Muslim nation of 79 million, joined the EU. Ankara was particularly angered by the response of Prime Minister David Cameron, once a staunch advocate of Turkish accession to the EU, who joked that it would not happen until the year 3000.
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" Turkey's relations with Europe have soured as well, to the point that four countries have now formally declared themselves against Ankara's accession to the EU. In the past few years, Turkey has "so dismantled the rule of law in the country you don't have anymore an independent judiciary or freedom of the press, and civil society has been suppressed.
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Roy Moore, the GOP nominee for the special election to fill the Senate vacancy left by Jeff Sessions's accession to the Cabinet, faced more credible allegations of sexual misconduct and abandonment by the national GOP — even as the state party turns against him and polls for the first time show him with a real chance of losing.
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And while a deal may limit the influx of Syrians, Afghans and others, freer travel would inevitably increase the migration of Turks into the EU. Hardest of all will be any discussion of Turkey's accession to the EU. Not even Turkey's closest friends would claim that it meets the democratic standards required to begin EU negotiations, let alone gain membership.
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On the other hand, beyond the role that financial deregulation played in opening the way for the calamities of 503, Clinton's trade policies — not only the North American Free Trade Agreement but, perhaps more importantly, China's accession to the World Trade Organization, pushed by Clinton and formally realized under George W. Bush — sped along deindustrialization that had begun in the 250s and 22020s.
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The unprecedented summit thrust Russia back as a bona fide player in global gamesmanship as Putin tried to check the George W. Bush administration's intention to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and build a Theater Missile Defense in East Asia, war campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, and bolster ties with former Soviet-bloc states by their accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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The first two episodes of Season 1 pulsate with the most dramatic and wrenching transition of the monarch's life: the abrupt accession to the throne of the young, married Princess Elizabeth upon the premature death of her father, King George VI. But after that, she doesn't put a slippered foot wrong for the next six decades — unpromising material for a dramatist, one might think Not so.
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The EU is expected to double its aid package, to $6.63 billion, for health care, education, and other basic services for more than two million Syrian refugees already in Turkey, and ramp up political concessions to Turkey, such as easing visa restrictions for Turkish nationals and reviving talks on Turkish accession to the EU, in exchange for stepped-up efforts to curb migration and refugee flows to Europe.
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Washington just issued a warning about (a) America's systematic and unsustainable trade deficits with the EU ($165 billion in 68.33), (b) free-loading on America's military protection by ignoring financial obligations to the NATO alliance, (c) the EU serving as an instrument of German interests and (d) Brexit as an echo to British voices that they voted for U.K.'s accession to the EU in 1973, but did not expect to be governed by Germany.
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Though Turkey's accession to the European Union has been on ice for some years now, put there in large part by European leaders reluctant to include a large Muslim nation in their grouping, the agreement signed more than 50 years ago establishing an accession process, along with Turkey's membership in NATO and other international forums, have signified an intention to embrace the principles of democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights.
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