EU accession negotiations started on 31 March 1998, and concluded when Cyprus joined the organization as a full member in 2004.

This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers ( as the first technical university in Sweden ).

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

The New York Times reported that E-Sports Entertainment ESEA League started the first professional fantasy e-sports league in 2004 around the game of Counter-Strike.

After the overwhelming popularity of Pokémon in India and Pakistan, Cartoon Network started to air Digimon in 2004.

In 2004, with the environmental movement seemingly stalled, some environmentalists started questioning whether " environmentalism " was even a useful political framework.

* Lebrancho Rock In 2004, the Town Hall of Puerto del Rosario started this initiative for the growing number of local bands who'd been performing in the area for years but had not had the chance to play at the same event.

Their julmust was never advertised until 2004, when Coca-Cola started marketing their julmust under the brand " Bjäre julmust ", but they bought the syrup from Roberts AB.

Originally started after the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, Knitters Without Borders is a charity challenge issued by knitting personality Stephanie Pearl-McPhee that encourages knitters to donate to Médecins Sans Frontières ( Doctors Without Borders ).

Spacey's first season started in September 2004, and opened with the British premiere of the play Cloaca by Maria Goos, directed by Spacey, which opened to mixed reviews.

The transit agency started using this fuel in 2004, prior to the widespread adoption of ultra-low sulfur diesel, which has since become the standard.

After the referendum, Repše's government started to fall apart and he eventually resigned in January 2004.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

Test production of the Lada 1118 sedan started in November 2004 and full-scale assembly was launched in May 2005.

In early 2004, Linkin Park started a world tour titled the Meteora World Tour.

Although a counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

The 2004 season started poorly for the Saints, as they went 2 – 4 through their first six games and 4 – 8 through their first twelve games.

The team also started wearing black shoes exclusively in 2004.

FOCS 1, a continuous cold caesium fountain atomic clock in Switzerland, started operating in 2004 at an uncertainty of one second in 30 million years.

Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford created and starred in All Wear Bowlers ( 2004 ), which started as an homage to Laurel and Hardy then evolved to incorporate life-sized silent film sequences of Sobelle and Lyford who jump back and forth between live action and the silver screen.

The rebound which started in mid 2003 saw growth rate growth rate averaging 3 % ( 2004 and 2005 saw a GDP growth of 2. 5 % and 2. 6 % respectively ; for 2006 and 2007, the rate was 3. 6 %).

This started in the early 90s ' and was only met with a similar motivated competitor in 2004 called REM FM.

The telecommunications liberalisation process started in 2004 after the creation of the Telecommunication Authority, and is still ongoing.

In 2004, Marmaray project started on a rail tunnel under the Bosphorus straits.

Mobile phones sector started to improve rapidly after the expiration of company's exclusive license in 2004.

Arnet has been slowly recovering its reputation, which was tarnished amongst connoisseurs due to their 2004 announcement.

Oldsmobile met the same fate in 2004 after being more slowly phased out over four years.

He apparently left the MP2P Community in 2004, subsequently Blubster and Piolet slowly began to lose their user base.

In September 2006, the FSB was shaken by a major reshuffle, which, combined with some earlier reassignments ( most remarkably, those of FSB Deputy Directors Yury Zaostrovtsev and Vladimir Anisimov in 2004 and 2005, respectively ), were widely believed to be linked to the Three Whales Corruption Scandal that had slowly unfolded since 2000.

Over the following years, enrollment has slowly increased, reaching 500 students in 2002, and 600 in 2004.

... in the several weeks beginning in mid-February 2004, when, slowly at first but with mounting velocity, manhole covers started to disappear from roads and pavements around the world.

Although defeating strong top ranked teams in international friendlies throughout the years, the team's strength has diminished slowly, failing to qualify for any major tournament since 2004.

After being honored as the Dynamo Kyiv's best player of 2004 by team fans his career slowly started to decline, majorly due to a conflict with Dynamo's former coach Yozhef Sabo.

On July 9, 2004, Klebnikov was attacked on a Moscow street late at night by unknown assailants who fired at least nine shots from a slowly moving car.

Evolution slowly began dissolving in 2004.

In early 2004, Kidman began teaming with Paul London, slowly working their way up the tag team ranks.

Further explorations undertaken by a joint Italian-American team in 2004 identified the foundations of an Ionic temple on this slowly subsiding coast.

The group slowly died between August 2004 and October 2005.

Since then, the stored units have slowly been scrapped at various locations, with the final vehicles disposed of in 2004.

In 2004 the murals were all removed for a restoration plan by the STM to have the artist repaint the murals and slowly have them reinstalled in the station.

Preston School of Industry went inactive after their September 2004 Australian tour, though Kannberg revealed in late 2006 he had been slowly working on a record: " Don't know when it's going to be released.

Rugby union is a popular choice for students ; previously, the school had an excellent reputation for it, but due to the graduation of most of the senior players such as the League winning Classes of 2004 and 2005, and the school slowly becoming more local, with academics becoming the top priority.

In 2004, after another year off from giving birth to her second child, McCune slowly began to return to television.

His condition slowly improved and he returned to work in February 2004, where Simpson had been acting as caretaker manager.

They slowly grow closer and feelings develop into love ; they elope in 2004 and marry in seclusion.

The 2004 report had less to say about SSPX: " Again this year, dialogue at various levels continued, though slowly, with the Saint Pius X Fraternity.