Sentence examples for applicant countries from inspiring English sources

Diplomats from the applicant countries wore long faces in Amsterdam.

If applicant countries meet the Copenhagen criteria, they are admitted.

The EU can thus shore up reformers in applicant countries.

Some MEPs complained that the applicant countries were not yet democratic enough to join the EU.

Applicant countries would do better to form mutual-assistance alliances among themselves.

11 had a riveting effect on NATO and applicant countries," Mr. Armitage said.

The 10 applicant countries are Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus.

But that will not make them any more palatable to governments.The commission's opinions on the applicant countries are impressively frank.

At present, average manufacturing wages in the eastern applicant countries are only 15% of average levels in the EU-15.

The outcome is not a foregone conclusion; indeed, there is potential for considerable trouble.Take the applicant countries first.

But trying to do so by suspending expansion would damage both applicant countries and the EU itself.