As the President of the European Council progresses, the negotiations on EU enlargement and the calendar he proposed this Tuesday will be discussed at the next summit, scheduled for 26-27 October in Brussels.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, has specified this 2030 as the year in which it should take place the next major enlargement of the European Unionincluding the accession of Ukraine and six other Balkan countries that already have candidate status.
This was stated on Monday during his speech at the strategic forum in Bled (Slovenia), where he stressed that the “solidarity” forms the core of European integration and makes the EU ‘stronger’. That’s why he believes it’s time to make progress in the enlargement negotiations.
Aware that the “slowness” of the road to the EU has “disappointed many” both in the EU and in the EU Balkans As within the EU itself, Michel has paraphrased German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to emphasize that the Union must keep its promises.
The President of the Council also referred to the attack on the sovereignty of Ukraine by the Kremlin to remember that Russia has attacked not just a neighboring country, but “everything” the EU believes in and defends, and has called for the lessons learned to be put into practice and act now with the same “decision” that already been taken to respond to the outbreak of war or the covid-19 pandemic.
As the President of the European Council progresses, the negotiations on EU enlargement and the calendar he proposed this Tuesday will be discussed at the next summit, scheduled for 26 and 27 October in Brusselsand in which he hopes that Bosnia and Herzegovina and Georgia are ‘back on the table’.
Source: EITB
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