EU can no longer afford national vetoes on foreign policy, – Germany’s Scholz

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  1. Honestly though foreign policy beyond trade stuff is much harder to coordinate between the EU countries and there should be some leeway for disagreements etc

    Sure the Ukraine-Russia war concerns many EU countries and it makes sense for a collective response but for other issues like Israel-Palestine etc many countries in the EU have strong but different positions. Does it even makes sense to harmonise everything?

  2. This is a good idea.

    However, coming from a sad marionette like Scholz, it’s obscene.

    Edit

    I hope this will not be felt like kind of Führerbeleidigung.

  3. >>Moscow’s war in Ukraine makes unity in Europe ever more urgent andincreases pressure for an end to “selfish blockades” of Europeandecisions by individual member states, Scholz said in an articlepublished by the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on Sunday<<

    Germany’s policy towards Russia has been so successful, that Scholz apparently wants the whole EU to continue it. /s

    This appeal is really ill-conceived. A number of EU countries earlier this year made clear, that they are currently not interested in any revision of treaties.

    [https://www.euractiv.com/section/future-eu/news/a-third-of-eu-countries-oppose-changing-blocs-treaties/](https://www.euractiv.com/section/future-eu/news/a-third-of-eu-countries-oppose-changing-blocs-treaties/)

    Obviously, some interested countries can use “enhenced cooperation” if they want. But the point is that in such case they can’t act in the name of the whole EU, so in practice very little can be achieved by such initiative.

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