Borrell: Balkans tired, EU reform

Borrell has called it a key geopolitical importance to further EU enlargement.

“at the same time that revitalating enlargement, we must make a similar effort to reform our EU and decision-making, because the expanded EU must also be able to act. That also means reducing the rules of unanimity in foreign policy in other areas as well, so that more decisions can be made by a majority named”, he has said.

Borrell recalled that Western Balkan countries have rightly sought, so that their membership process is judged on the basis of their merits.

The “has been almost 20 years since the EU declared in Thessaloniki that the future of the Western Balkans is within the EU. EU enlargement to those countries, which are willing and able to meet the conditions, is not a “service” or a concession, is in our strategic interest”, the European top diplomat has said.

He added that a reliable enlargement policy is a geostrategic investment in peace, stability, security and economic growth across Europe.

There is compelling reason to bring the Western Balkan countries, to grant candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, and we hope soon for Georgia. But in the same way, it's foolish to do what doesn't work at age 27, completely powerless at 30 or more. And now that enlargement has returned to the agenda, we can no longer stop the issue of how an EU would function, say, 35 countries. We have to cut the Gorani” knot, he said.