{"id":59581,"date":"2023-09-07T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=59581"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:07:29","slug":"european-union-enlargement-chief-backs-2030-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/european-union-enlargement-chief-backs-2030-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union enlargement chief backs 2030 deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Commissioner V\u00e1rhelyi diverged from the EU executive\u2019s line that there should be no timeline to allow new members.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRUSSELS \u2014<\/strong> The EU\u2019s enlargement chief backed European Council President Charles Michel\u2019s 2030 timeline for letting in candidate countries over the official stance of his own boss Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Commissioner Oliv\u00e9r V\u00e1rhelyi disagreed with the European Commission\u2019s\u00a0stance\u00a0that there should be no target date for EU enlargement, raising questions over the EU executive\u2019s internal unity on this key file.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to\u00a0an enlargement timeline\u00a0proposed by Michel, V\u00e1rhelyi said on Wednesday the Commission should be ready to let in new members by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn our side we have been working tirelessly to that end \u2014 so I\u2019m very happy to see finally, the member states are also starting to move and mobilize politically, and ready to invest politically to have new members of the EU by 2030,\u201d V\u00e1rhelyi said during a press conference in Ankara with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.<\/p>\n<p>This<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is a departure<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>from the Commission\u2019s official line that EU enlargement is a \u201cmerit-based process\u201d with no official end date.<\/p>\n<p>V\u00e1rhelyi is not the first senior EU official to support a more ambitious time frame for EU expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell welcomed a deadline for enlargement, arguing this would \u201cmobilize our [the EU\u2019s] energy and that of the candidate states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Enlargement has shot to the top of the EU\u2019s priority list after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with pressure building on the Commission to open up accession talks with\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0and Moldova before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit to Ankara, the EU\u2019s enlargement czar dashed any hopes that Turkey \u2014 whose bid to join the EU has been stalled for decades \u2014 might enter the club in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe negotiations for accession are at a standstill now, and for this to be remobilized there are very clear criteria set out also by the European Council that would need to be addressed, and these criteria are related to democracy and rule of law,\u201d said V\u00e1rhelyi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner V\u00e1rhelyi diverged from the EU executive\u2019s line that there should be no timeline to allow new members. 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