Hah. Durao Barroso warns of difficulties in expansion reforms

DrOurao Barroso, who led the European Commission between 2004 and 2014, stressed that although he fully supported Kiev’s accession to the bloc, he considered that discussions about… “Fundamental changes in the institutional balance… could cause many divisions in the European Union.” He considered that adopting a unanimous majority of decisions must continue.

“Look at the difficult decisions we have taken so far, such as sanctions against Russia or defense-related issues. Weren’t they even possible by consensus?”pointing to.

The former EU president warned of the difficulty of making far-reaching changes, and said the EU should focus, for example, on completing the banking union and capital markets union and making progress on geopolitical issues.

The former Commission president’s comments, published today in the online edition of the Financial Times, came at a time when EU countries began making proposals on how to reform the union before welcoming new members, despite no entry imminent.

In addition to Ukraine and Moldova, Turkey, Georgia and six countries in the Western Balkans are at different stages of the EU accession process.

According to the newspaper, the European Commission is expected to submit a report on the progress made by the ten candidate countries in October.

At the beginning of this month, at a PSD summer “class” on “Europe and the World: Challenges and Perspectives,” the former Portuguese Prime Minister took up the issue of EU enlargement.

“We have to change the rules then [a UE] It went from 27 to 35 members and countries that do not accept do not stop being members. There must be legal and institutional creativity to integrate new members,” considered Durao Barroso in Castelo de Vide.

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