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The Treaty of Accession and ratifications
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Synopsis
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Pierre Gerbet. Translated by the CVCE.
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Copenhagen European Council, Cyprus, EU Accession Treaty, Europe and the former Soviet Union, European Union, ratification of an agreement, referendum, Turkey, UNO
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HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1998–2009 The unification of Europe >> The enlargements of the European Union >> The fifth enlargement >> The Treaty of Accession and ratification
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The Treaty of Accession and ratifications
Negotiations with the ten candidate countries were completed at the Copenhagen European Council, held on 12–13 December 2002. The Treaty still had to be finalised and adopted. It was a weighty document running to some 4 900 pages, drafted in the 20 official languages of the future Union, setting out the terms of accession and the transitional arrangements for each of the candidate countries, now referred to as ‘acceding countries’. The European Commission gave its backing in February 2003. It was then the turn of the European Parliament to approve the text by an absolute majority of its Members, delivering an opinion on each acceding country, which it did on 9 April, with very few dissenting votes or abstentions. Finally, the Treaty of Accession was formally signed on 16 April in Athens, at the foot of the Acropolis. It entered into force on 1 May 2004. Ratifications were to be carried out in two different ways: by referendum in the acceding countries in order to involve the people in this crucial choice, and by parliamentary procedure in the case of the existing Member States. The referendums, some of which were held even before the Treaty was signed, produced very favourable results everywhere. Admittedly, the 10 states that had recently regained their sovereignty following t (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Conclusions of the Council of the European Union on Cyprus (26 April 2004)
Aide_memoire from the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to the British High Commission in Nicosia (26 March 1998)
Cartoon by Behrendt on the Cyprus question
Statement by Alvaro de Soto on the outcome of the referendum (Nicosia, 24 April 2004)
Procedures planned for the ratification of the Constitutional Treaty
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