Polish farmers, who before accession were tearing their shirts and warning that the evil Germans and French would buy up Polish land for nothing, are emerging as the biggest beneficiaries of the EU.
This could be attached to a future revision of the Lisbon treaty or to the next accession treaty for a new EU member state.
These two boys – 12-year-old King Edward V and his brother, nine-year-old Richard, Duke of York – were taken to the inner apartments of the Tower of London after Richard's accession.
When the Chinese president-elect Xi Jinping went off the radar for nine days in September 2012, shortly before his accession, there were fewer jokes – China is too opaque a country to joke about – but no sense of impending crisis, despite the persistent rumours of instability within the Chinese communist party.
Its EU accession talks are at a standstill after Erdoğan repeatedly insisted Turkey does not need Europe.
Hence the intense, proud and enthusiastic process of Europeanisation on which Spanish society, its politicians, businesses, intellectuals and unions embarked, first in 1978 with the adoption of the constitution, and then from 1986 with the formalisation of European accession.
She has written a post about today's figures, and she points out that, although the number of Romanians and Bulgarians in work has gone down since the start of the year, the number of other Eastern Europe (or people from EUA8 - the accession eight - in ONS jargon) went up.
CBI: "The trade boost to other EU states as a result of UK membership, particularly the accession countries of eastern Europe, has an indirect benefit to the UK of increasing prosperity in key export markets for UK firms.
Mike Bartlett's play was the popular hit of the year – and deservedly so since, in speculating obout the consequences of Charles's accession to the throne, it raised any number of big questions.
The meeting was called to celebrate the anniversary of Labour's accession to power.
FINANCIAL MARKETS Hong Kong gained 5.2% in the week to November 17th, to a two-year high, after China and America signed their deal on WTO accession.
