accession
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Meanwhile, countries like Sweden and Finland for years remained nonaligned but maintained strong armed forces, said Tobias Billström, who was the Swedish foreign minister during the country’s accession to NATO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Fishing is big business in Iceland, and European countries were unwilling to promise they wouldn’t use accession talks as leverage for access to Icelandic waters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The question on the ballot was: "Should Iceland resume accession negotiations with the European Union?"
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
However, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Iceland's banking system, Reykjavik moved to start accession talks in 2009, only to bring them to a halt in 2013.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
A somewhat more immediate influence was Aristotle himself, whose death in 322 happened to coincide with Ptolemy’s accession to the governorship of Egypt.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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