The phrase "acceding countries" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of countries that are joining or becoming members of an organization, treaty, or agreement.
Example: "The conference will address the challenges faced by acceding countries as they integrate into the international community."
Alternatives: "joining nations" or "new member states".
But as the abortive Nice summit discussions on limiting the size of the European Commission to less than one per member country showed, getting such a change agreed may prove extremely hard.How long EU governments have to do it depends largely on how soon the acceding countries will be ready to join.
Acceding countries are unlikely to be offered permanent opt-outs like Britain's and Denmark's.
Estonia is the northernmost of the acceding countries and has more in common with the Scandinavian countries than the other Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania.
In the past 15 years a dozen national referendums have been held on EU questions (not counting acceding countries)—and half of them have been lost.Special report Fit at 50? Are you sitting comfortably?
The financial package agreed at the Copenhagen Summit in 2002 for the 10 EU acceding countries, amounted to a total of 40.8 billion euros for the three year period 2004-2006.
Now that the guidelines have been agreed, it is time to bring about closer involvement of the acceding countries concerned, the Russian Federation, Norway and Iceland in the process as it unfolds.
Sources said it was additionally unclear what role the UK would have in shaping the priorities of Horizon Europe after Brexit, given it would no longer be a member state and would not be an EFTA member, acceding country, candidate country or potential candidate country.
*Europe = EU Member States, European Free Trade Zone countries, Acceding and Candidate countries.
During this public health emergency, syndromic surveillance systems were the only source of information to measure any direct health impact.> -wrap-foot> *Europe = EU Member States, European Free Trade Zone countries, Acceding and Candidate countries.
Next to the syndromic surveillance systems listed in Table 1 and Table 2a, we identified seven additional systemsb, for which no details were retrievable and they were not included in further analysis [ 13, 20].> -wrap-foot>> -wrap-foot> *Europe = EU Member States, European Free Trade Zone countries, Acceding and Candidate countries.
The characteristics are defined following the framework for assessing syndromic surveillance systems proposed by the CDC [ 62] and detailed by the Triple S-AGE project [ 63].> -wrap-foot> *Europe = EU Member States, European Free Trade Zone countries, Acceding and Candidate countries.
