Bjerre said the bloc should also look into restricting access to EU funds for countries that violate European law.<\/p>\n
Another major issue for Denmark: EU enlargement. The minister called out Hungary\u2019s ongoing blockade of Ukraine\u2019s membership in the European Union, saying Denmark was \u201cwilling to look at all political and practical solutions for us to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
If EU countries decide to escalate their ongoing Article 7 procedure, they could strip Hungary of its voting rights on aspects of European policy such as enlargement, removing Budapest\u2019s ability to veto Ukraine\u2019s membership. However, diplomats caution that moving ahead requires at least full-throated support from Paris and Berlin to rally the rest of the bloc \u2014 support that so far has been lacking.<\/p>\n
With Hungary still dead set against Ukraine\u2019s membership, there is speculation that the European Commission could decide to move ahead with Moldova\u2019s membership bid by formally opening a negotiation \u201ccluster\u201d in the coming days. Moldova and Ukraine have been moving in lockstep toward EU membership, so uncoupling them would be controversial.<\/p>\n
But Bjerre said Denmark isn\u2019t ready to split the two membership bids: \u201cIt is still our goal to open cluster one together with Moldova and Ukraine,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bjerre said the bloc should also look into restricting access to EU funds for countries that violate European…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29061,29062,29063,22200,29064,2850,29065,2852,20038,50,153,125,273,275,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-35192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-brussels-bubble","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-enlargement","11":"tag-european-politics","12":"tag-hungarian-politics","13":"tag-hungary","14":"tag-moldova","15":"tag-negotiations","16":"tag-neighborhood","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-policy","19":"tag-rights","20":"tag-ukraine","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine","22":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114789138153794879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}