A group of experts from Germany and France is working on a new proposal to make the EU more suitable for enlargement, German Minister for Europe Anna Luhrmann has announced ahead of the EU General Affairs Council.
“Here at the General Affairs Council, we are always busy preparing the EU for the enlargement that will come with many new member states. And that’s why we founded a German-French group of experts in January, which primarily deals with how to prepare for this round of expansion,” Luhrmann says.
She has emphasized that the representatives of those two countries recently had a dinner with all their colleagues from the member states, where the expert group presented its work results.
The fact that Germany and France are working on new EU enlargement modalities was also confirmed by the French State Secretary for Europe Laurence Boone, who pointed out that enlargement was no longer in question, but the way to implement that process.
“We had an informal dinner to start talking about the enlargement. Twenty-seven of us ministers in charge of Europe were present. No one questioned whether there should be an enlargement, everyone agrees that it should be done, quickly,” said Boon.
