EU enlargement--more rounds to come.The May 1, 2004 admittance Admittance The ratio of the current to the voltage in an alternating-current circuit. In terms of complex current I and voltage V, the admittance of a circuit is given by Eq. (1), and is related to the impedance of the circuit Z by Eq. (2). of 10 new member states has brought membership in the European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community to 25 and taken the EU a huge step eastward (see page 18). But the expansion process is in non-stop mode; membership could soon hit 27, then 33, then ... who knows? The "former" Communist countries of Bulgaria and Romania--where life-long Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. functionaries still dominate many of the national institutions--are scheduled to be admitted in 2007. Turkey, with a Muslim population of 80 million, could follow soon after. Then come Albania and the Balkan states of Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro (sûr`bēə, mŏn'tənē`grō), Serbian Srbija i Crna Gora, former country of SE Europe, in the Balkan Peninsula, a short-lived union (2003–6) of the republics of Serbia and the much . At a June 20, 2003 gathering of top EU leaders on the proposed EU Constitution in Thessaloniki, Greece, European Commission President Romano Prodi declared: "The unification of Europe will not be complete until our friends in the Balkans are part of the family." |
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