In the 2004 European Parliament election the EFA was reduced to four MEPs two of the SNP ( Ian Hudghton and Alyn Smith ), one of PC ( Jill Evans ) and one of the Republican Left of Catalonia ( ERC ; Bernat Joan i Mari, replaced at the mid-term by MEP Mikel Irujo of Basque EA ) plus two affiliate members ( Tatjana Ždanoka of For Human Rights in United Latvia ( PCTVL ) and László Tőkés, independent MEP and former member of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania ( UMDR ).

From 2004 until 2009, Özdemir was a member of the European Parliament in the parliamentary group The Greens – European Free Alliance ( Greens – EFA ).

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

Having entered custody in June 2004, Neptune was formally charged on September 20, 2005, but was never sent to trial.

Development of Namibia's navy has been slow, and the force was only formally established in 2004, 14 years after independence.

Poland formally joined the European Union in May 2004, along with the other members of the Visegrád group.

It is called POSIX: 2004 ( formally: IEEE Std 1003. 1-2004 ).

It was formally scheduled for mandatory retirement in 2010 in accord with the directives President George W. Bush issued on January 14, 2004 in his Vision for Space Exploration.

Introduced formally in 1992, though with some history before that, the rule was abandoned from the majority of FIFA authorized games in 2004.

" Judge Cain granted the order to formally dissolve New Rome on August 9, 2004, and also ordered the clearing of all unpaid traffic tickets and all drivers licenses suspended by the village.

Gubbio, incidentally, is " Sister City " to Jessup resulting from a process that began in May, 1978 and was completed formally in May, 2004.

It was formally dissolved by the end of 2004 along with the other Regierungsbezirke of Lower Saxony as part of an effort to optimize the administrative system of the state.

On 15 August 2004 Prince Hans-Adam II formally turned the power of making day-to-day governmental decisions over to his son Prince Alois, as a way of transitioning to a new generation.

While the band didn't formally break up, Allison Wolfe did post a message on January 30, 2004 in the Bratmobile message board concerning the status of the band:

Shareholders formally approved the offer from Blackstone on 16 June 2004, and Blackstone completed the acquisition of Celanese AG.

It was formally dedicated on 14 December 2004 and opened to traffic two days later.

As the SWP switched its priorities to working within Respect the Socialist Alliance became virtually moribund during 2004 and was formally wound up in February 2005.

Author and historian Bruce Quarrie formally lived in the town before his death in 2004.

Sark formally retained it until January 2004, when the Chief Pleas in a 14-9 vote removed it from the statutes.

In February 2004, the museum was formally chartered as a museum, and granted 501 ( c )( 3 ) public charity status.

This species was only formally described in 2004, after it was discovered that the previous formal descriptions pertained to individuals of a different cockatoo species, the Ducorps ' or Solomons Cockatoo ( Cacatua ducorpsii ).

In 2004, the species was formally described as Cacatua goffiniana, maintaining the intent of Finsch to name a species of cockatoo after his friend.

The Canadian federal election, 2004 ( more formally, the 38th General Election ), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 38th Parliament of Canada.

Haitink formally stated in a 2004 article that he would no longer conduct opera, but he made exceptions in 2007, directing three performances of Parsifal in Zurich in March and April and five of Pelléas et Mélisande in Paris ( Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ) in June.

The Supreme Court of New Zealand ( in Māori: Te Kōti Matua o Aotearoa ) is the highest court and the court of last resort in New Zealand, having formally come into existence on 1 January 2004.

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

In 2004, the red jerseys became the primary jerseys, and the black ones became the alternate, both worn with white pants.

Her deputy Mark Popescu became responsible for editorial content in 2004, a role he continued in until the appointment of Bakhurst as Controller in 2005.

The Czech Republic became a member of the EU in May 2004.

In 1978, Gaylord Perry ( age 40 ) became the oldest pitcher to receive the award, only to have the record broken in 2004 by Roger Clemens ( age 42 ).

Corinna Vinschen became co-lead since early 2004 when Faylor left Red Hat.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

Under Mourinho, Chelsea became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War ( 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06 ), in addition to winning an FA Cup ( 2007 ) and two League Cups ( 2005 and 2007 ).

The former site of Commodore's operational headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania, now houses the headquarters and broadcast studios of leading cable retailer QVC, Inc. ( On November 26, 2004, QVC became the first retailer to sell the DTV, a " C64 in a joystick " designed by Jeri Ellsworth.

The English Wikipedia became the world's largest encyclopedia in 2004 at the 300, 000 article stage and by late 2005, Wikipedia had produced over two million articles in more than 80 languages with content licensed under the copyleft GNU Free Documentation License.

In February 2004 Edmund Stoiber became a candidate of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder for the presidency of the European Commission but he decided not to run for this office.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

At an extraordinary Congress in Brussels held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union, the ELDR Party incorporated itself under Belgian law and later became a European political party.

In 2004, she became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Lost in Translation.

On 6 May 2004, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan became the first Turkish leader to visit Greece in fifty years.

EDGE services first became operational in a network in 2003 and the number of worldwide GSM subscribers exceeded 1 billion in 2004.

A Mac installer became available in 2004.

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

As a consequence Europe's economic integration deepened, the continent became depolarised and the European Union expanded to include many of the formerly communist European countries, in 2004 and 2007.

Hungary became member of NATO in 1999, and member of the EU in 2004.

Under constitutional changes in 2004, the MPR became a bicameral legislature, with the creation of the Dewan Perwakilan Daerah ( DPD ), in which each province is represented by four members, although its legislative powers are more limited than those of the DPR.

In 2004, the Jaguars became the first NFL team to have three African-American quarterbacks on their roster.