Aspiring countries who meet criteria will be allowed to join bloc ‘without further delay’, Taoiseach said during meeting with Croatian PM
Mr Varadkar said of aspirant countries who want to join the EU: “They know that if they meet the criteria we’ve set out, that they will be allowed to join without further delay, and that’s something that Ireland and Croatia have been working on together at a European Council level.
“Sometimes enlargement gets delayed because of concerns around how many MEPs there are, how do you run qualified majority voting, or the number of Commissioners. But what’s happened to Ukraine puts those kinds of problems into perspective. “These are serious issues that need to be dealt with. But there’s a bigger picture at play here,” he said.
“We helped to secure EU agreement for changes to the [Northern Ireland] Protocol to secure the Windsor framework which we’re now very keen to see implemented.
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