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EU to overhaul process for admitting new members
After Brexit, EU centres on the Balkans for ‘geo-strategic
enlargement against backdrop of French objections. EU enlargement A Staff member holds a folded
The European Union still aims to admit the Balkan nations
and North Macedonia into the bloc, new EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said on Wednesday
about letting the six countries into the EU
EU membership is offered to the entire region
not recognised by five of the 27 EU members including Spain
The EU executive hopes to persuade France to lift
reforms outlined on Wednesday would give existing EU members the power to pause the process
changes were enough for Macron, but one EU diplomat urged Paris to allow membership talks
walk over this bridge now, join the EU consensus and pave the way for the
start of accession talks,” an EU diplomat told Reuters
The United Kingdom left the EU on January 31 after a 47-year