Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Charles Michel meet Hungarian leader in bid to prevent Budapest blocking key decision
Gitanas Nausėda, Lithuania’s president, said when arriving at the summit that he thinks “we have the chance – historical chance – to take very bold decision regarding the start of negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova.”
“This is in our hands – we can take it but we can waste it,” he said, adding that the people of Ukraine and Moldova “deserve positive outcome.”
My point is: if we will spoil, or if we will abuse the unanimity principle, there will be more and more voices asking why we still take the decisions on the consensus basis.
So for my country, which is benefiting from the unanimity principle, because this is a small-sized country, like Hungary for example, it’s very important to keep this principle. But we should not abuse this principle and … use this very correctly and very fairly. We’ll see.
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Continue reading…Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Charles Michel meet Hungarian leader in bid to prevent Budapest blocking key decisionGitanas Nausėda, Lithuania’s president, said when arriving at the summit that he thinks “we have the chance – historical chance – to take very bold decision regarding the start of negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova.”“This is in our hands – we can take it but we can waste it,” he said, adding that the people of Ukraine and Moldova “deserve positive outcome.”My point is: if we will spoil, or if we will abuse the unanimity principle, there will be more and more voices asking why we still take the decisions on the consensus basis.So for my country, which is benefiting from the unanimity principle, because this is a small-sized country, like Hungary for example, it’s very important to keep this principle. But we should not abuse this principle and … use this very correctly and very fairly. We’ll see.Middle EastSecurity and defenceMigrationHybrid attacks by RussiaFight against anti-Semitism Continue reading…