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Scholz: Negotiations with Albania must begin now

2022-06-19 12:52:11Politikë SHKRUAR NGA LINDITA ARAPI
Scholz: Negotiations with Albania must begin now
Olaf Scholz

The expected granting of candidate status to Ukraine in the EU has prompted German Chancellor Scholz to call for EU reforms. Scholz has called for moves towards opening negotiations with Albania and northern Macedonia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for reforms in the EU in order to facilitate the admission of new members to the European Union. "Not only should candidates for membership be prepared, the EU itself should be prepared for union enlargement," the Social Democrat politician said in an interview with the German news agency dpa.

Scholz will facilitate EU membership with reforms

"This requires the EU to modernize its decision-making structures and processes. Not all decisions that need to be taken unanimously today can always be decided on a unanimous basis." Scholz said he would talk about it at the EU summit in late June. At this summit, EU heads of state and government address the membership applications of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. The European Commission has recently recommended that Ukraine and Moldova receive candidate status. Scholz also made this clear during his stay in Kiev with President Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

Scholz called on the EU to take a decision on Ukraine's candidate status "in the spirit of unity". "It is clear that the road to the EU will not be easy, but that many criteria must be met by each candidate who will take this road," said Scholz. "This affects the rule of law and democracy, but also all the other regulations that we in Europe have set for each other."

But the German chancellor's attention is also focused on the Western Balkans, where Scholz paid a recent tour. He has already said that we must be fair to the Western Balkans and keep our promises. In an interview with dpa, he said that he hopes that the EU summit next week will give another impetus to the countries of the Western Balkans, which have been waiting for EU membership for two decades. "We must show the countries of the Western Balkans that we take it seriously. Albania and Northern Macedonia meet all the criteria for opening concrete negotiations for EU membership, they must start now."

Candidate status can only be granted by a unanimous vote. The softening of this principle has long been discussed in the EU. The problem is that even the reform of the unanimous decision must be decided unanimously by the heads of state and government in the EU. The European Parliament had called a week ago for extended reforms of the European convention and to abandon the principle of unanimous decision in almost all areas of politics.

The G7-Gipfel summit will need to strengthen cooperation and democracy

The EU summit is just the beginning of a series of summits in a week. It is followed by the G7 summit and the NATO summit. At the G7 summit, at which powerful economic democracies are united, Germany holds the rotating presidency. Scholz is hosting the G7 from June 26-28 at Elmau Castle in Bavaria. He will place emphasis on cooperation between democracies around the world. "An important success would be if the summit serves as the starting point for a new look at the world of democracy," Scholz said.

Scholz: Negotiations with Albania must begin now
Scholz hosts G7 June 26-28 at Elmau Castle in Bavaria

The meaning of democracy is reduced, if only Western democracies are associated with it, ie the G7 countries, Germany, USA, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan. "The big powerful democracies of the future are in Asia, Africa, South America and they will be our partners," Scholz said. "We have to keep the whole globe in mind and not just a reduced look at Europe, North America and Japan. The world in the next 30 years will have more centers of power." a central role, this is a big step forward. "/ DW


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