4 minutes agoScholz: Germany committed to joining Western Balkans
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Germany's Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said they are committed to EU enlargement and said Western Balkan countries, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia must join the bloc. Acknowledging that an enlarged EU would bring greater differences among member states, he suggested a reform of practices [...]
Acknowledging that an expanded EU would bring greater differences among member states, he suggested a reform of voting practices.
The present-day unanimity “Aty, the risk of an individual state using its veto and preventing all others from moving forward with decisions, increases as each new member state,” added Scholz.
“Therefore I have proposed a gradual transition to the majority vote for common foreign policy, but in other areas, such as tax policies, well knowing that this would have consequences for Germany”, he said in his speech today at Charles University in Prague, Reuters, broadcast Klan Kosova.tv.
