One of the main conditions for the success of the accession and enlargement process is for the European Union itself to schedule a meeting to review its decision-making process, said Belgian Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Development Cooperation, Maxime Prévot at a joint press conference with his Macedonian counterpart Timcho Mucunski.
Asked whether Belgium would give up its veto right and accept the qualified majority principle, Prévot said that “we have now painfully experienced the constant question of unanimity related to foreign affairs and security issues in recent years and they have often led the EU to a state of silence and incapacity to express its voice, as it should as a geopolitical power.”
“We saw what happened with the Palestinian issue. We can be satisfied with the support we provided to Ukraine, but we are not happy that we are not at the table, even though we are paying the bill for that lunch. I think that the functioning of these 27 countries, and tomorrow, if there are more, we should invoke the qualified majority, which, well, will take away part of the right to unanimity on certain very specific issues,” Prévot said.
