Sentences with phrase «new member states»

This would cut the funding promised to the ten new member states by?

Heightened litigation risk: «private» litigation from market participants» reaction to government action, as well as «public» litigation from inconsistency from application of new Member State regulatory reforms

Lessons Learnt From 20 Years of Organic Pioneering Projects in New Member States.

«I want to underline the fact that there has been an important wave of immigrants that came to Great Britain from new member states and in many cases they came with aptitudes and a commitment, an involvement we haven't always seen in our labour force.»

In particular, the proposal needs to become fairer for new member states.»

But he stressed new member states would only be admitted if they conformed to European Union standards, and said there was «nothing for our respective peoples to fear».

But this army of researchers is largely starved of resources: R&D spending in the 10 new member states falls well short of the E.U.'s average of 1.98 % of GDP.

The fairness of the system has been substantially increased by the move towards EU - wide free allocation rules for industrial installations and by the introduction of a redistribution mechanism that entitles new Member States to auction more allowances.

This kind of funding is especially important for game developers coming from new Member States or Southern member states that have been severely hit by the economic crisis and therefore have been forced to cut their public funding opportunities.»

Thus, the Treaty is at any time open for new Member States to join.

By contrast, I have heard of cases pertaining to some newer member states where the state in question would not even send a representative or written arguments to the court (here again I think it was about prejudicial questions, not infringement proceedings but it shows how specific countries approach EU litigation in general).

Britain, along with Sweden and Ireland, gave workers from these new member states an unrestricted right to work.

The European Council of June 2004 invited Turkey to conclude negotiations with the Commission on behalf of the Community and its 25 Member States on the adaptation of the Ankara Agreement to take account of the accession of the new Member States.

With potentially five new member states to join the EU in the next few years, a question arises: Is today's EU ready for a further enlargement?

In that sense, the threat of expulsion is not only unlikely but also unnecessary (although some observers of democratic backsliding in some of the newer member states are likely to disagree with me on this point).

I have argued elsewhere that the values, norms and «special ethos» of the EU, expressed in concepts such as EU citizenship, fundamental rights and duties of loyalty, combine to provide a reasoned justification for an internal enlargement of the EU using the procedure for treaty amendment in Article 48 TEU, rather than necessitating the cumbersome accession procedures for a new member state (which has been colloquially referred to as «the Croatia route»).

This week Mr Blair is visiting a number of the new member states to try to establish a «consensus» on the EU budget.

Today's deal is expected to call for a cut in the overall EU budget, with a cut in funding to the new member states of up to ten per cent and a corresponding cut - believed to be between 12 and 15 per cent - in Britain's # 3.5 billion rebate.

Jose Manuel Barroso warned the plans, which would scale back the 2007 - 13 budget, provided insufficient investment in an enlarged EU and were unfair to new member states.

This could either come off the rebate, by exempting the new member states from paying into it, or be paid for by increasing the contribution to the EU through VAT receipts.

They pay into the EU Budget: for the specific programmes they participate in and for development grants to new member states.

He says the treaty is necessary to accommodate the needs of ten new member states, who joined the EU when it was expanded in 2004.

A cabinet row erupted into the open on Sunday when the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, warned of housing problems when migrants from the EU's two newest member states are given full access to Britain from next year.

About half of the newcomers live in Poland, the giant among the new member states (see graphic).

Perhaps surprisingly, many in the new member states reject that idea out of hand.

For one, the majority of new member states have overhauled their often sclerotic, centrally directed scientific systems.

«If you added a lot of new member states you would increase the pressure on the observatories.

Some of the newer member states say that they have real difficulty in reaching excellence.

Finally the results unveil the significant divide between the regions of the «old» Europe and the new member states.

Furthermore, it is marvellous that more projects from new member states were among the selected ones than last year ``

This is because the EC burden - sharing proposal is explicitly designed to accommodate the inequality within the EU, where the average income in the EU15 Member States ($ 31,000) is more than twice that in the New Member States ($ 15,000).

Brussels, 16 November 2006 - The plans for spending future EU funds in the new member states give alarmingly insufficient financial support to energy efficiency and renewable energy, new research by Friends of the Earth Europe and CEE Bankwatch Network revealed today [1].

Almost all New Member States have drastic reductions in their emissions and will meet their targets - but not as a consequence of intelligent policies but due to their economic collapse of the 1990s.

The EU must take this opportunity to use financial aid to steer the new member states towards energy efficiency and renewable energy, rather than watch them pump out more and more emissions as they develop.»

Almost all New Member States have drastic reductions in their emissions and will meet their targets — but not as a consequence of intelligent policies but of economic change of the 1990s:

If the EU is really committed to include the ICS in all the new investment agreements of the EU or its Member States, then the Commission could simply authorize these new Member State agreements on the condition that they include the ICS.

By the European Union (Accessions) Act 2003 (EU (A) A 2003), the UK incorporated into domestic law the Accession Treaty signed in Athens in April 2003, providing for the admission of 10 new member states to the EU.

Mediterranean countries and new member states are of the view that the lead supervisor is not in a position to know and evaluate the real problems in the different parts of the group, mainly in smaller member states.

Mediterranean countries and the new member states may express concerns on the group supervision issue.

The certificate means that the judgement is treated in the new member state as if it were a judgement of that state.