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(6 years ago)With the European Union's new methodology, the enlargement process will be more difficult than it was so far, European Integration Minister Blerim Reka said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. He says visa liberalisation is the priority of the Kurti government, but as Reka puts it, [...]
With the European Union's new methodology, the enlargement process will be more difficult than it was so far, European Integration Minister Blerim Reka said in an interview for Radio Free Europe.
He says visa liberalisation is the government's priority, Kurti, but as Reka puts it, corruption and organised crime must be fought to occur.
Radio Free Europe: Minister Reka, the European Union has proposed a new methodology of integration, which will be applied to some Western Balkan countries. What impact will this methodology have on Kosovo and its EU integration claims?
Brian Reka: You know that since last year, French President Emmanuel Macron came out with one, to say new access to the EU enlargement policy whose essence was depth ahead of width, domestic institutional reforms in the European Union, respectively, before EU enlargement with new member states.
As a result of such strategic orientation, a new methodology for enlargement was drafted on February 5th, and formal approval is expected at the European Council meeting in March.
At first glance, the most superficial analysis of this methodology directs us to some changes. It is true that the authors of this methodology are trying to make the process of expansion more creditable, consistent, and measurable.
But, on the other hand, they inaugurated some new principles in the enlargement process, such as graduality, such as conditioning and returning.
What I mean, the entire modern, over 25-year-old philosophy of enlargement based on so-called aki-communit chapters (aquis communautaire ) and the EU legal base in 35 chapters, is now reduced to 7 phases, and at each stage we have several chapters that are once considered.
It is understandable that with this new approach, or this new methodology, the enlargement process will be a little more difficult than it was until now, and I hope that this was done just not by the very good experiences of new members who joined in 2004 and 2007 from Central and Eastern Europe and wanting not to repeat the same mistakes, this process, so it will be stricter, more re-registered and controlled.
