Charles Michel did not rule out the entry of new nations into the block of the old continent and stressed that it is a necessary step to give the EU project more seriousness.
Following the announcement last week of the entry of six new members, including Argentina, to the Brics bloc, the president of the European CouncilCharles Michel, announced this Monday, in a forum held in the Slovenian lake resort of Bled, the European Union (EU) must be prepared to admit new member states from now to 2030.
“I think we should be prepared for the enlargement in 2030“, declared Michel. And he considered that it is a plan that “is ambitious, but necessary” and that “shows that we are serious.”
What the European Union said about the BRICS
The news comes after the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrellaffirmed last Friday that the european bloc He has “nothing against” the expansion of the group of emerging economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
“Is a pole beginning to appear that groups what is not West?” Borrell asked himself during the closing of the course “Quo Vadis Europa?”, which he directed last week at the Menéndez Pelayo International University, in Santander (northern Spain).
noted that the rest of the world is organizing in the same way as the West and highlighted that, with the inclusion in this group of Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, countries that represent almost half of the world population are grouped together.
Source: Ambito
