Vertaling van "union gate " (Engels → Nederlands) :

3. Emphasizes that the Danube Region is Europe’s gate to the Western Balkans therefore the European Strategy for the Danube Region is not only conducive to the improvement of neighbourhood relations in Central Europe but provides important added value in the EU’s Eastern European policy, thus represents an excellent opportunity for the entire Union to fortify its political and economic cooperation with the Balkans, and, as a consequence, to contribute to the expansion and consolidation of the process of European integration in the reg ...[+++]ion;

I. whereas on 19 October 2009 Russia and the US resumed talks in Geneva on the drafting of a new agreement to succeed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), marking the first tangible step in the thaw in US-Russia relations announced by the Obama Administration; whereas on 23 October 2009 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a news conference held following the NATO ministerial meeting in Bratislava that the Russian radar stations in Gabala and Armavir, which Russia was proposing for joint use, could prove a real asset to the overall missile defence system for Europe that the US is currently establishing, thereby opening up the prospect of the US, NATO and Russia becoming partners in building a joint missile defence system; and w ...[+++]hereas from 18 September to 5 October 2009 Russia and Belarus held strategic manoeuvres which were consistent with the procedures laid down in the OSCE Vienna Document of 1999, but gave rise to serious concerns about their compliance with the spirit of good cooperation and mutual respect between Russia and the European Union,

I. whereas on 19 October 2009 Russia and the US resumed talks in Geneva on the drafting of a new agreement to succeed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), marking the first tangible step in the thaw in US-Russia relations announced by the Obama Administration; whereas on 23 October 2009 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a news conference held following the NATO ministerial meeting in Bratislava that the Russian radar stations in Gabala and Armavir, which Russia was proposing for joint use, could prove a real asset to the overall missile defence system for Europe that the US is currently establishing, thereby opening up the prospect of the US, NATO and Russia becoming partners in building a joint missile defence system; and w ...[+++]hereas from 18 September to 5 October 2009 Russia and Belarus held strategic manoeuvres which were consistent with the procedures laid down in the OSCE Vienna Document of 1999, but gave rise to serious concerns about their compliance with the spirit of good cooperation and mutual respect between Russia and the European Union,

But if this conference does not have the far-reaching outcome we desire and need, then this would be a tragedy for the European Union, for it would then be unable to undergo enlargement, and it would be awful if at the beginning of this century, the gates of the European Union were to remain closed to the countries of Central Europe, which have shaken off Communism, and if the Central European States were unable to gain access to the European Union.

The coins depict the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin surrounded by the twelve stars of the European Union.