7 hours agoKos: EU expansion in the face of Ukraine's invasion, US change and China's influence in the Balkans
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)Enlarging is a geopolitical “for the European Union. [ EU]”, told the French newspaper “Le Monde” EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, who is responsible for the accession process of the ten countries applying for EU entry. Between the Russian invasion of Ukraine, changing the United States' position on the continent [...]
Enlarging is a geopolitical “for the European Union. [ EU]”, told the French newspaper “Le Monde” EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos, who is responsible for the accession process of the ten countries applying for EU entry.
Between the Russian occupation of Ukraine, changing the position of the United States on the Old Continent and China's ambitions in the Balkans, “must move forward without losing any candidate, because this could weaken us,” she adds.
For the first time, we are facing forces that want to see us fail or that are conducting hybrid attacks on candidates appointed as Moldova. We need to maintain our ability to act and ensure our security”, Kos said, broadcast Periscope.
In 1979, she recalls, Simone Weil, then the new president of the European Parliament, considered that European states “have faced three major challenges: peace, freedom, and prosperity”.
And it seems,” she added, “that only the European dimension is capable of facing these challenges.
“While, since the 1990s, the issue of prosperity and prosperity has supported the different waves of EU enlargement, “since 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine, is the security issue, therefore once again the priority for peace”, she said.
