• Turkey's relations with EU member-state Cyprus are one obstacle, along with opposition to Turkish membership within other EU states, correspondents say.

    BBC: Serbia recommended for EU candidate status

  • Days later, Abbas' ability to get non-member-state status for the Palestinian territories at the United Nations was also considered a victory.

    CNN: Gaza rally called step toward unity for Fatah and Hamas

  • Under Mr Delors, it was more of a super member-state, the one that (in theory) looked after the interests of Europe as a whole.

    ECONOMIST: The beleaguered president of the European Commission

  • Western Europe's employees are also better wired: every new member-state is below the western average for internet penetration, and all but Estonia and Slovenia trail on e-government scores.

    ECONOMIST: The brainpower famine begins to bite

  • And the Americans would be well-served to look beyond the silken invitations to Turkish formal events at five-star hotels and see what is actually happening in the sole Muslim NATO member-state.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Dreamy foreign policies

  • The EU's still-evolving foreign service has also forged close links with African and Asian political and trading blocs and plays a growing role in coordinating often-competitive member-state relations with Russia, Brazil and China.

    WSJ: Syria Debate Illustrates EU's Foreign-Policy Weakness

  • Most funding comes from member-state contributions.

    CNN: EU leaders agree historic cut in long-term budget

  • By contrast to the USA, where economic resources are, by and large, amassed by genuine entrepreneurs and allocated by market forces, in EU, economic resources are amassed by Brussels and member-state governments acting as entrepreneurs, allocating those resources by political process.

    FORBES: EU: A Collection of Capricious Brides

  • But whether the idea of Italy's debt being "mutualised" (or shared with German taxpayers) via some kind of shield provided by the IMF will appeal to the German parliament and German central bank - which are set against any such central-bank lending to any eurozone member state - seems highly doubtful.

    BBC: Cheer up: It could be much worse

  • Mr Netanyahu froze the transfers last year after the Palestinians gained non-member observer state status at the UN.

    BBC: Israel to resume transfer of PA tax revenue

  • The General Assembly voted by 138-9 to recognise the Palestinians as a non-member observer state, with 41 states abstaining.

    BBC: Israel to build 3,000 settler homes after UN vote

  • In Idaho, there are only four Democrats in the 35-member state Senate.

    ECONOMIST: A new Republican heartland

  • Democrats have always had a majority in the 150-member state House, but Republicans think they have a shot at changing that next year.

    CNN: Breaking Old Habits

  • At least 12 of them have been nominated by the Congress party, while BJP has chosen seven candidates for the 70-member Delhi state assembly.

    BBC: Vasundhara Raje Scindia

  • The three-member state board cited infractions including syringes containing an analgesic and sedative found in Dutrow's desk and an analgesic found in the urine of his horse Fastus Cactus in November 2010 after it won at Aqueduct Racetrack.

    WSJ: Derby-winning trainer Dutrow sues over NY ban

  • Early results from the Election Commission of India indicated that center-left Congress was leading in races for 121 seats in the 224-member state assembly while the Hindu nationalist BJP, which currently holds power in the state, was poised to win 38 seats.

    WSJ: Congress Set to Win Karnataka Poll

  • It is hard to enforce policies limiting state-aid without a member state's backing, says Stephen Kinsella, a lawyer in Herbert Smith's Brussels office.

    ECONOMIST: State aid in Europe

  • Mr Meshaal this year strongly supported Mr Abbas's move in upgrading Palestinian status at the United Nations to that of a non-member "observer state".

    BBC: Profile: Khaled Meshaal of Hamas

  • Each Member State and non-governmental organisation may designate no more than three candidates for each biennium.

    UNESCO: Apply for UNESCO Prizes

  • "If you have to industrialise, you need private capital, " says Sen, perhaps the only Blackberry-carrying member of the state cabinet.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Each Member State and non-governmental organisation may designate one candidate only.

    UNESCO: Apply for UNESCO Prizes

  • Right now, the opposition is led by turf-conscious state insurance regulators, consumer groups, member-owned insurance companies and trade groups representing independent insurance agents.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Requests are submitted to the Director-General by the Member State, through the National Commission for UNESCO, or where there is no National Commission, through a designated government channel.

    UNESCO: Participation Programme

  • Two top advisers to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin -- Sergei Karaganov and former Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov -- told CNN Tuesday that Secretary of State Colin Powell told Russian President Vladimir Putin of Bush's intentions following meetings this week in Moscow.

    CNN: Bush to quit ABM treaty Thursday

  • Mr. Rehberg is well-known in the state as Montana's at-large House Member and in the most recent poll, from Rasmussen, he is ahead of Mr. Tester 49% to 47%.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: What Good Is a GOP Senate?

  • The idea hasn't settled well with the 40, 000-member Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers union.

    WSJ: Conn. Joining Teacher Trend

  • The 32-member MRT held meetings throughout the state to gather ideas, and offered 79 proposals for improving efficiency, including introducing a global cap on Medicaid expenditures.

    FORBES: New York Medicaid Reforms Intended to Improve Health at Lower Cost

  • What his numbers show is that British exporters would probably be more damaged by a eurozone implosion than German ones: or to put it another way, businesses in the UK - which, to state the stunningly obvious, is not a member of the euro area - are more dependent on the health of the eurozone than German companies.

    BBC: Can Germany afford eurozone collapse?

  • As such, she becomes the first third-party member of the Assembly, the state's lower legislative house, since 1917, and the first Green elected to partisan office in the United States.

    ECONOMIST: California politics

  • Start with the state's 10-member House delegation.

    CNN: Death gives Massachusetts 1st open Senate seat in decades

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