A European time-out?
Olli Rehn, the EU’s enlargement commissioner, has an op-ed in yesterday’s Paris edition of the Times.
The piece begins by decsribing the doom and gloom that’s enveloped the Brussels club after the Franco-Dutch slap of a few weeks ago, and this week’s failed summit.
It then dives into the matter by stating,
The rest is very much along those rather surprising lines. The tenor is one of sauve-qui-peut enlargement — we’ll take a big leap (RO, BG, maybe HR) so we can retreat better (TR, the rest of the Balkans). We’ll be proactive now so we can slack later.Certainly we need to pace ourselves after last year, when 10 new members joined the Union.
Read the rest on East Ethnia.
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T K Vogel | 8:34 am |
