The phrase "admitting countries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing countries that accept or allow entry to certain individuals, such as refugees or immigrants.
Example: "The conference focused on the responsibilities of admitting countries in providing support to displaced persons."
Alternatives: "accepting nations" or "receiving countries".
"That's the trouble with the EU admitting countries without a mature court system," says a Warsaw lawyer close to the case.
Croatia's application to join the European Union has challenged Western Europe to devise a strategy for admitting countries from the Balkans, which after a decade of wars were all promised membership one day.
The counter-argument is that admitting countries like Romania and Bulgaria is the best way to protect and encourage internal reformists who are the best hope for the future.Either way, what is clear is that the decision by the European Commission to freeze funds for Bulgaria was not just a technical measure.
Mr. Menon said the first lesson to be learned was the need for greater institutionalization to ensure the success of regionalism; second, admitting countries to a single currency before they were ready and without a means of enforcing fiscal discipline could lead to disastrous consequences.
In March Hans Tietmeyer of the Bundesbank warned against admitting countries which only narrowly met the Maastricht convergence criteria:Should the margin for budgetary manoeuvre be exhausted in a member country, adaptation to differences in the progress of productivity would bear almost exclusively on the costs of labour.
"We will not admit countries that are troubled with unending internal conflicts," said Hassan Kibelloh, an official in the Tanzanian Foreign Ministry.
The European Union, which has fewer murders than America, refuses to admit countries as new members unless they renounce the practice.
Central Europeans, and even Americans, have sometimes castigated the EU for dragging its feet over admitting the countries of the former Soviet block.
UEFA, European soccer's governing body, requires U.N. membership before admitting a country, even though 37 of its 53 members recognize Kosovo politically.
He favours a false No 9, such as Manchester City's sorcerer-in-chief David Silva or Fabregas, admitting the country doesn't have "a decent No 9" at present.
A6 European Union Expansion The European Union has admitted 10 countries, most of them poor, former Communist nations.
