The EU should discuss the option of temporarily limiting some voting rights of the bloc’s future new members and creating more rule-of-law safeguards, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg wrote in a joint paper seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
“The EU should have an in-depth discussion on the possibility of temporary, transitional limitations of voting rights for new Member States, in particular parts of the EU-acquis where unanimity is required”, the five countries wrote.
In North Macedonia, EU Ambassador Rokas, asked about the Franco-German Non-Paper, clarified that it didn’t eliminate the obligation related to the constitutional changes process.