Word: eu
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...days. The European Union took a giant leap forward Wednesday by officially recommending 11 nations to be included in the new currency next January: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. "We are at the end of an historic process," said EU president Jacques Santer...
...test for potential [EU] members is not GNP or per capita income, but rather the potential for development of economic and political structures," Brittan said...
...EU is considering admitting countries from Central and Eastern Europe into the economic and political alliance, he said...
Brittan attributed the EU's success over the past 15 years to its single market economy which has eliminated barriers between member countries...
Brittan noted that a majority voting requirements has also helped the EU overcome a community that was "smothering with internal difficulties...