“The EU must reflect now and prepare to understand what has to change in order to welcome not only Ukraine but also Moldova in a positive way,” António Costa said.
The Prime Minister participated, this Friday morning, in an informal meeting with nine other European leaders on the enlargement of the European Union (EU) to other countries and defended that the “current institutional and budgetary architecture” makes this process difficult.
“The EU must now reflect and prepare to understand What do you have to change to be able to welcome positively not only Ukraine, but also Moldova, the countries of the Western Balkans”, said António Costa, at a press conference at the end of a European Council, in Brussels.
During the start of the work of the summit on Friday, the Portuguese Prime Minister held an informal meeting with the leaders of Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden, in a hotel in the center of the city. , to discuss EU enlargement.
For the President of the Government, “with the current institutional and budgetary architecture, the European Union would not be a good reception place to any country I wanted to enter.”
If we want to honor, and we have to honor the expectations created, the EU has to adapt previously”, added the head of the Portuguese Executive.
António Costa said that this discussion “will continue in a more formal wayin the next six months, during the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union, which begins on Saturday.
Source: Observadora
