The German Chancellor also declared his support for the European political community project led by Emmanuel Macron.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has “engagedMonday, August 29 in Prague to support an enlargement of the European Union to Balkan countries, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, imagining an EU comprising “30 or 36 members“.
“Where unanimity is now required (within the EU), the risk of one country blocking all others from moving forward with its veto increases with each new member state.“, further argued the German Chancellor, “proposing to move gradually to majority decision-making in common foreign policy, but also in other areas, such as fiscal policy“.
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Olaf Scholz also reaffirmed his support for French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to create a “European political community” which would allow “a regular exchange at the political level” between EU leaders and their “European partners”.
Within this new forum, “we would discuss once or twice a year the central themes that concern our continent as a whole: security, energy, climate or connectivity”argued the German Chancellor in a speech on the future of Europe delivered in Prague.
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