Macron shocks Globalist order, blocks EU accession of Albania and North Macedonia (Video)
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss French President Emmanuel Macron’s stunning decision to block EU accession talks for North Macedonia and Albania.
France is now facing enormous pressure from the United States and Merkel-centric, EU oligarchs, further dividing Brussels over the question of further enlargement, that has become a defining test of the EU’s post-Brexit strategy.
The US is urging President Macron to allow formal negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania, as the EU-NATO structure shows further signs of decay and rot.
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French President Emmanuel Macron blocked on Friday the beginning of EU accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania. In support of the French position were also the Netherlands and Denmark. The EU Summit deeply disappointed the two Balkan countries as unanimity is required for new EU member states.
Macron said the membership bids of Albania and North Macedonia could not progress until the EU changes how and when candidates are vetted on meeting accession targets, which range from economic policy to human rights and the rule of law.
Outgoing European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker described the decision as “a grave historical mistake.” On the same wavelength also was European Council President Donald Tusk.
“It is a mistake. I feel really embarrassed today. Both countries have passed their exams. I can’t say the same about our member states,” Tusk said. He called on both countries to remain on the European path. He called the Prespes Agreement “an extraordinary achievement.”
Juncker added, though, “it is an EU mistake but not a failure.”
Albania and North Macedonia submitted their application to join the bloc in 2009 and 2004 respectively and have since taken steps to align themselves more closely with European standards.
North Macedonia signed the Prespes Agreement with Greece in summer 2018, changed the country’s official name and Constitution in order to be able to join the NATO and the EU.
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, urged EU leaders on Thursday to “not put out the bright star we are striving for.”
“We have worked hard and we are ready to work even harder and to face all the challenges that come with the process,” he wrote on Twitter.
Following the EU block on Friday, a political turmoil has reportedly broke out in North Macedonia with the nationalist opposition party VMRO to demand early elections.
There are rumors that PM Zaef may step down.
Albania is the collateral damage of an intra-EU power struggle, Prime Minister Edi Rama told euronews.
“It is clear there is a large majority that understands it all and there is a smaller (group of) countries that has a different understanding, so it is a fight within different approaches of the EU,” Rama said.
The European Union is to deal again with its enlargement at the Summit in Zagreb in May 2020.
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