Sentence examples for candidate status from inspiring English sources

Serbia deserves its candidate status.

Albania got candidate status in 2014.

Serbia, another key player in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, was granted candidate status in March, and Albania received conditional candidate status in October.

By contrast, Macedonia signed an SAA in 2001, before graduating to candidate status in 2005.

Serbia, which failed to gain candidate status in December, could do so in March.

It may even win formal candidate status by the end of 2010.

Croatia will join the EU next year, Montenegro was opening up membership negotiations and Serbia has candidate status, he said.

If Serbia wins EU candidate status, it may exclude Kosovo's Serbs in the north from local elections.

Even Albania, denied candidate status because of its democratic failings, still sees the EU as its destination.Caution is in order.

Undaunted, Serbia's deputy prime minister, Bozidar Djelic, has said that his country will apply for EU candidate status in June.

But important as Mr Mladic's arrest may be, Serbia's road to candidate status is not yet free.