Putin is the ‘biggest promoter’ of EU enlargement, Croatian PM Plenkovic says • FRANCE 24 English

We speak to one of the most seasoned players on the European stage, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic. During his eight years in office, he has experienced the latter stages of the 2015-16 migrant crisis, the Covid pandemic, and the impact of the war in Ukraine, as well as overseeing his country’s entry into the eurozone and the Schengen free-travel area. We discuss topical issues in the EU as well as in his region, particularly EU enlargement towards the Western Balkans.

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14 comments

  1. So Putin does not really care about EU enlargement only NATO enlargement. Western narrative is laughable now – but nice try though.

  2. Why don't you first ask UK to join EU and then turn towards Africa etc etc etc. This only means West doesn't have good politicians and media people. Don't expose your moral bankruptcy like this.

  3. The enlargement of the EU has a limit and the EU is desperate to reach that limit for political reasons rather than economics , why not allow Turkey to join the EU ?? It is all political and Putin has nothing to do with it . The EU is going through a bad bad patch and seem that NATO has overtaken the political arena from the EU .

  5. Very clearly the hypocrisy, if you have tides with Russia you aren’t welcome , that’s absolutely disgusting, a country lose their sovereignty when the join the EU ,
    A country should be able to be able to negotiate and make business with any country.
    Germany being the most powerful country in the EU allows itself to do business with Russia but the small countries aren’t…Great , isn’t it?

  10. Since Putin allegedly says he likes Pamela Harris's 'infectious' smile and since I am already well aware about how some authoritarian minded people establish policies for security forces like ICE in the U.S. I am wondering why the title for above video is a bit too creative concerning use of punctuation in the title for video right now. Only took me a minute of having to listen to Croation Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic to realize what he is most afraid of in life right now too. Same as Putin is while being rich enough to get treatment for any kind of infection. By the way soon after my sister Sharon's wedding in a Roman Catholic church while travelling with her U.S. born husband home which His parents had been doing at the time too during their son's honeymoon. Thank you Mr. Plenkovic for the information about how your government policies work too. I will pass when it comes to ever going on any kind of holiday to Croatia. Nor am I any longer interested in getting a work Visa to be international student there with a part time paid job as well.

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