{"id":1855,"date":"2025-07-25T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/press-release\/eu-enlargment-member-states-are-delaying\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:36:30","slug":"eu-enlargment-member-states-are-delaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/press-release\/eu-enlargment-member-states-are-delaying\/","title":{"rendered":"EU enlargment: member states are delaying"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1855\" class=\"elementor elementor-1855 elementor-1763\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f53c6c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7f53c6c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed0a4ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ed0a4ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s enlargement package from the European Commission makes one thing clear: it\u2019s EU leaders who are obstructing enlargement. The Commission\u2019s assessment of how the EU should reform before enlargement, the pre-enlargement policy review, was due today but has been delayed until November 19. Volt MEP Kai Tegethoff is calling for immediate, structural reform within the EU: \u201cThe pace of enlargement should depend on the actual readiness of accession partners, not the political will of Member States.\u201d  <\/span><\/p><p> <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe progress reports confirm what we already know: countries like Ukraine and Moldova are undertaking the necessary reforms at an unprecedented pace, demonstrating their real commitment to joining the EU. The real bottleneck is not to be found in Kyiv or Chi\u0219in\u0103u, but in Brussels and other national capitals,\u201d said Tegethoff.<\/span><\/p><p> <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tegethoff wants to follow the proposal of Cost\u00e1, to prevent blocking vetoes from turning every single step of the enlargement process into a blockade: \u201cThe blocking vetoes of Orb\u00e1n, and the passivity of others to make use of creative solutions, have practically paralyzed enlargement. To fix this systemic flaw, we must introduce Qualified Majority Voting for the intermediate stages of accession. Without it, the process will drag on endlessly.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p> <\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MEP Tegethoff emphasised the need to reward long-standing efforts in the Western Balkans. \u201cMontenegro and Albania are clearly choosing Europe, now it&#8217;s time for Europe to choose them. We need a real deadline for their accession before 2030. Enlargement and reform of the EU must go hand in hand. We need to show real courage and commit to an ambitious \u2018Agenda 2030\u2019 to prepare our institutions, democracy, and budget for a larger Union. Let\u2019s seize this moment to build a stronger, more united Europe.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The candidate countries are not the problem &#8211; our leaders are! In spite of massive reforms, they are kicking the can down the road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaitegethoff.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}