Sentence examples for candidate country from inspiring English sources

A restrictive membership could still be "sold" as a membership to voters in the candidate country.

And the situation is no different in the largest candidate country, Poland.

In each candidate country, the government will need to put EU membership to the electorate and win a referendum.

Consumer-price inflation in a candidate country must be no higher than 1.5 percentage points above the three best-performing EU states with regard to inflation.

In the late 1990s Brussels got the politicians in Slovakia, then a candidate country, to dump the nationalist Vladimir Meciar as prime minister.

Before the EU will even open negotiations with an applicant, it has to be satisfied that the candidate country is a functioning democracy.

As for the largest candidate country, Turkey, which applied in 1987, the commission said it was particularly concerned about freedom of expression.

Among other things, these decreed that "membership requires that the candidate country has achieved stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights".

For Bulgaria, Greece and even for Serbia which is just an EU candidate country, the promised 'paradise' turned to hopeless gloom".

And in every candidate country, populists, Communists, extreme nationalists and others on the political fringe have called on voters to reject Europe.

But what would happen to a non-candidate country that adopted the euro and then applied for EU membership?