A “consistent and merit-based” enlargement policy: this is how the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which begins on Monday 1 July, wishes to move forward on issues relating to the accession of new countries to the EU, specifically those in the Western Balkans.
“The (European) Community cannot be complete without the accession of this region”, it says in the summary of Hungary’s priorities for the next 6 months, which goes on to state that “the...