...significantly to security and stability in Europe. Emphasizing that such an enhanced status based on stability of institutions, guaranteeing democracy,...rights, and respect for and protection of minorities, should contribute to security and stability in Europe, and welcoming in this regard the forthcoming...

...for accession more explicitly. They declared that membership requires the candidate countries to have achieved stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy,...rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure...

...assume the obligations of membership by satisfying the economic and political conditions required. Membership requires that the candidate country has...rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure...

...Copenhagen Council restated the principles of the classical Community method of enlargement. It stated that: membership requires that the candidate country has...rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressures...

...membership by satisfying the economic and political conditions required'. 25 A candidate country must have achieved 'stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy,...rights and respect for and protection of minorities'. 26 Moreover, it must guarantee 'the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity...

...general conditions are stated concerning political stability and institutions, the need to guarantee democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure...

...the Copenhagen European Council. The accession conditions set at Copenhagen in 1993 are as follows: Membership requires that the candidate country has...rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure...

...so desire shall become members of the European Union' and specified the preconditions of the entry: Membership requires that the candidate country has...rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressure...

...European Council in Copenhagen in June 1993 belatedly laid down more explicit conditions of entry. 'Membership requires that the candidate country has...rights and respect for and protection of minorities, the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressures...

...and economic conditions for EU-membership. These were: - Political conditions, ie "that the candidate has achieved stability of institutions guaranteeing...rights and respect for and protection of minorities". - Economic conditions require "the existence of a functioning market economy, as well as the capacity...