Turkey's relations with EU member-state Cyprus are one obstacle, along with opposition to Turkish membership within other EU states, correspondents say.
Days later, Abbas' ability to get non-member-state status for the Palestinian territories at the United Nations was also considered a victory.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mr Netanyahu froze the transfers last year after the Palestinians gained non-member observer state status at the UN.
The General Assembly voted by 138-9 to recognise the Palestinians as a non-member observer state, with 41 states abstaining.
In Idaho, there are only four Democrats in the 35-member state Senate.
Democrats have always had a majority in the 150-member state House, but Republicans think they have a shot at changing that next year.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Each Member State and non-governmental organisation may designate no more than three candidates for each biennium.
"If you have to industrialise, you need private capital, " says Sen, perhaps the only Blackberry-carrying member of the state cabinet.
Each Member State and non-governmental organisation may designate one candidate only.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
The idea hasn't settled well with the 40, 000-member Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers union.
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.
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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.
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.
Start with the state's 10-member House delegation.
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