At his formal accession to the Chrysanthemum Throne in 1926, he took the official name of Showa - which translates as "Enlightened Peace.
In return, Iceland can expect accession talks to move at a double-quick pace.
In four years of actual accession talks, Turkey has opened only 11 of 35 policy chapters that need to be negotiated, successfully closing just one, on science and research.
Germany's Merkel 'appalled' by Turkey's response to protests BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she was shocked at Turkey's tough response to anti-government protests but she stopped short of demanding that the European Union call off accession talks with the candidate country. "I'm appalled, like many others," Merkel said of Turkey's handling of two weeks of unrest that began over a redevelopment project in an Istanbul park ...
June 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
Thanks, EU, but Iceland isn’t so keen on joining any more Iceland is rethinking its desire to become a member of the European Union, putting talks with the European bloc on hold for the time being. Although it had completed about a third of the accession negotiations, ...
June 14, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance
Ambika Soni in Financial Express Accession to the convention will result in technological upgradation of the country's assaying and hallmarking centres and their recognition by the members of the Vienna Convention,Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said after...
Liam Byrne in ic Wales Immigration Minister Liam Byrne said, "The right balance points to continuing to restrict access to the labour market for those low-skilled migrants coming from Romania and Bulgaria until at least the end of 2008." "While accession workers...
Sergey Lavrov in KTAR.com We will do all we can to prevent Ukraine's and Georgia's accession into NATO and to avoid an inevitable serious exacerbation of our relations with both the alliance and our neighbors,Lavrov said on Ekho Moskvy radio.