No guarantee new EU members will “behave” – same goes for old ones | Piotr Maciej Kaczyński

Talks of enlarging the EU to include Ukraine, Moldova, and countries in the Western Balkans have prompted European leaders to consider amending the accession treaties in such a way that new members would not initially have the right to veto, following years of obstruction by Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán. Transitional periods are nothing new when it comes to EU membership, one example being restrictions on freedom of employment following the 2004 expansion. But will restricting the right to veto for new members solve the problem that was made so apparent by Orbán?

“For many years, Viktor Orbán was a center-right politician. He turned anti-European extremist Moscow lover only after 2014. So that is about ten years into Hungarian membership in the Union,” Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, EU Institutional Issues Lecturer at the University of Warsaw, told TVP World, further pointing out that “There is no guarantee that any government out there of a new country entering the Union is going to behave, so to speak, forever.”

“We also do not have that guarantee (for) the French government or (for) the Italian government or (for) the Bulgarian government either,” he also added.

Join our host Ashim Kumar and his guest as they discuss the prospects for EU expansion, the hurdles of the EU adding more voices to the 27 already in the bloc, and the challenges faced by countries such as Ukraine and Moldova, which do not fully control their own territories.

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