The French-German paper sets out ideas that would allow the EU to enlarge without necessarily changing its treaties. It also floats a potential “supplementary reform treaty” that would allow “willing” member states to move forward with treaty reform without the backing of more sceptical countries.
While France and Germany are drawing up a plan for a Europe of concentric circles, Ukraine made quite clear it doesn’t want to be fobbed off with second-tier membership. Ukraine wants to become a “fully fledged candidate for full fledged membership” of the European Union, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told POLITICO as he vowed to take his country into the EU within the next two years.
Today, the 27 member states agree that enlargement is inevitable. But how to proceed? And at what pace? These are for now intractable questions. Some EU Member States remain sceptical about fundamental EU reform. For example, the idea of wide sweeping EU reform is met with scepticism in Poland, which considers that it will be simply lead to decision-making paralysis in a future enlarged EU.
Boy, I wish this stuff would go viral. Since 2017, Emmanuel Macron has talked about accomplishing 3 things.
- Coalition of the Willing
- Concentric Circles
- The EPC. European Political Community
I have posted dozens of articles from the past few weeks since the Oval Office debate with Trump and Zelensky talking about these three items.
It is all Emmanuel Macron. All they way now and the Tribulation Period.