a minute agoReka: Changing Brussels' access to enlargement, followed by learning from 2014
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The European Union's major expansion during 2014 followed with a pause in the admission of new states to the long-standing bloc has lured the interest of Western Balkan countries. It was the changes within the bloc of EU policy slides from geopolitical access to technical ones that provided the prolongation of [...]
Such luck had recently come to Albania and Northern Macedonia, which was again extended the date of membership, despite numerous positive estimates of meeting the required criteria.
Brussels' approach to enlargement changed as a result of learning from suffering. This is said by former ambassador to the European Union and ultimately candidate for president in northern Macedonia, Blerim Reka, in a written interview for “Koha Ditore”. It's about the cases where the last major expansion made it part of the bloc and the states that had not met the Copenhagen criteria, nor those of Madrid.
Until a decade ago, the unwillingness for the admission of new Brussels members reasoned with enlargement fatigue and lack of absorption capacity is now reasoned with the new approach, where prior to enlargement the deepening of the EU, (Macron) or prior to membership with the new states requires its institutional reform of”, Reka said.
