Ininternationalrelations,acountrythatis aprospectivememberoftheEuropean Union. Inordertoqualifyas anaccessioncountry,astatemusthaveademocracywithamarket economy, itmustrespecthumanrights,anditmustaccepttheaimsoftheEuropeanUnion.InordertoactuallyjointheEU,atreatystatingsuchmustberatifiedbyboththeaccessioncountryand...
Numbering at 70 000, the Second Wave was smaller in numbers than the First Wave, it left as big a mark on Lithuanian history because many second-wavers were patriots who would have never left Lithuania in other circumstances, so they worked hard to recreate a piece of Lithuania in their ne...
Possible future membership of the OPEC countries in the Energy Charter Treaty would raise the same questions as raised for the WTO, because the ECT provides for non-GATT members the application of GATT provisions, with some qualifications. Different from the GATT, however, the ECT, in Article ...
These fundamental rules of the international postal service are to be found in the Universal Postal Convention and General Regulations and have been little changed since adoption of the Bern Treaty. The first basic principle is that all member countries form “a single postal territory for the reci...
The first steps of the BRVM can be traced back to 14 November 1973 when the treaty establishing the WAEMU was signed. Members included Burkina Faso, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Niger, Mali, Togo, and Senegal. In 1997, Guinea-Bissau joined, and to date there are eight member countries. On...