Enlargement only if you get rid of the liberum veto first in the EU. That is what is paralysing the EU, so no new member states before that. It may not seem fair for candidates, but we need to sort this out before.
Serbia will never join EU, because we will never recognize Kosovo. Kosovo will never join EU, because Spain doesn’t recognize Kosovo as a country. It’s simple as that. I don’t want to even mention Bosnia, which is near collapse.
I like Serbians somehow, but I think Serbia in the EU would be the next trouble makers Hungary and Poland alike.
Even if the unanimity rule is abolished as long as there is still a loophole allowing a single country to blackmail the whole Union, Serbia will use it.
> […] it was not expected that all reform process would be so closely monitored and controlled by EU institutions
Lol, “how dare they actually check the implementation of the reforms we signed up for….”
TL;DR, there’s a lot of work ongoing on many different levels for cooperation. Which is good.
But in the same time, Eduard Kukan isn’t just optimistic, he’s also partly blind and exaggerating. For example when he says that Montenegro did everything the EU asked from them and we still don’t have a date to join the EU, he’s forgotting that Montenegro still didn’t reach acceptable situations in many ways, and especially environmental policies. Maybe Kukan forgot about it but at the time it’s a major reason why no progress is being made.
And yes we can way “but this other country joined without having to comply with those policies!” But two things: first, the EU is learning for its mistakes and now has programs to follow and support closely countries that want to join, and Balkan countries benefit already from that. Second, Balkan countries don’t offer any strategic assets like Greece, Cyprus, or the Baltic countries did, so the EU has no reason to make things go faster.
So honestly I don’t think the EU has to be more “fair” with the Balkan countries. The EU is already fair. We already have ongoing programs to make policies closer to the EU in those countries. On the long term, there’s maybe a risk that they never actually join as full members, that’s true… but would that really be a bad thing? The Balkan countries would keep their full independance while enjoying trade and cooperation with the EU. And maybe countries from the Visegrad group would prefer that situation as well at some point in the future.
He died two days ago.
the eu has no obligation to let them join. watch your tongues, that’s not how you talk to someone you want something from.
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Enlargement only if you get rid of the liberum veto first in the EU. That is what is paralysing the EU, so no new member states before that. It may not seem fair for candidates, but we need to sort this out before.
Serbia will never join EU, because we will never recognize Kosovo. Kosovo will never join EU, because Spain doesn’t recognize Kosovo as a country. It’s simple as that. I don’t want to even mention Bosnia, which is near collapse.
I like Serbians somehow, but I think Serbia in the EU would be the next trouble makers Hungary and Poland alike.
Even if the unanimity rule is abolished as long as there is still a loophole allowing a single country to blackmail the whole Union, Serbia will use it.
> […] it was not expected that all reform process would be so closely monitored and controlled by EU institutions
Lol, “how dare they actually check the implementation of the reforms we signed up for….”
TL;DR, there’s a lot of work ongoing on many different levels for cooperation. Which is good.
But in the same time, Eduard Kukan isn’t just optimistic, he’s also partly blind and exaggerating. For example when he says that Montenegro did everything the EU asked from them and we still don’t have a date to join the EU, he’s forgotting that Montenegro still didn’t reach acceptable situations in many ways, and especially environmental policies. Maybe Kukan forgot about it but at the time it’s a major reason why no progress is being made.
And yes we can way “but this other country joined without having to comply with those policies!” But two things: first, the EU is learning for its mistakes and now has programs to follow and support closely countries that want to join, and Balkan countries benefit already from that. Second, Balkan countries don’t offer any strategic assets like Greece, Cyprus, or the Baltic countries did, so the EU has no reason to make things go faster.
So honestly I don’t think the EU has to be more “fair” with the Balkan countries. The EU is already fair. We already have ongoing programs to make policies closer to the EU in those countries. On the long term, there’s maybe a risk that they never actually join as full members, that’s true… but would that really be a bad thing? The Balkan countries would keep their full independance while enjoying trade and cooperation with the EU. And maybe countries from the Visegrad group would prefer that situation as well at some point in the future.
He died two days ago.
the eu has no obligation to let them join. watch your tongues, that’s not how you talk to someone you want something from.