Etymologies
- From French acquis ("asset"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The European Commission has adopted a Communication setting out an ambitious and detailed Framework for Action to simplify, streamline and improve access to the body of EU law, known as the acquis communautaire.”
“The EU's legislation, known as acquis xommunautaire, which Ankara has to negotiate and adopt before it can become a member, is over 120,000 pages.”
“Schengen agreements (1985 and 1990) on the free movement of persons and the harmonization of border controls in Europe; the Schengen agreements ( "acquis") became incorporated into EU law with the implementation of the 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam on 1 May 1999; member states are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,”
“Europe; the Schengen agreements ( "acquis") became incorporated into”
“In 2005, the Commission will set out in detail those other conditions for entry particularly those that concern economic reform and the implementation of the EU’s rule book, known as the acquis communautaire.”
“If Turkish leaders thought the mere idea of joining the EU was “silly”, why did they make so many concessions in their national laws to the acquis communautaire?”
““If Turkish leaders thought the mere idea of joining the EU was “silly”, why did they make so many concessions in their national laws to the acquis communautaire?””
“The entire principle of the acquis communautaire —law that all EU member states must share—is the root of Europe's current problems.”
“All the evidence points to the fact that no matter how accurate the sceptical voices of the last 40 years have been, their talk of vetoes, pillars and the acquis communautaire simply does not have strong enough traction with the general public.”
“For the same reason they want rid of the Jews,. the Islamic equivalent of 'acquis communitaire'.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘acquis’.
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AFET - EU enlargement
absorption capacity, accede to next en..., acceding country, accelerate negoti..., accession criteria, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession process, accession talks, acquis communautaire, acquis screening and 697 more...
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recent new scrabble words
these came into effect from 2011
biobank, biftahs, biftah, bichirs, fansubs, favicon, fansub, bisom, fansites, fansite, fannying, fannied and 1465 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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