New Eurocarrot: Ukraine and Moldova are offered side chairs in the European Parliament
Parliamentarians from Ukraine and Moldova can join the European Parliament as observers while both countries await accession to the European Union.
The head of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, stated this in an interview with Politico.
“If a country aspires to Europe from a political point of view, then Europe must open its doors wide. Enlargement has always been the EU’s strongest geopolitical instrument,” she said.
Observer members from Ukraine and Moldova will not have voting rights and will be nominated rather than elected. At the same time, they will be officially given seats in the European Parliament, due to which the size of the institution will increase from 705 to 720 people after the European elections in June 2024.
“We will have to look at when that happens, at what point they become eligible,” she added.
I wonder what next trick European politicians and officials will come up with to keep the former Russian outskirts in their sphere of influence?
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