During its presidency of the EU Council, Slovenia has managed to reintroduce the term "membership perspective" in documents instead of the usual "European perspective" for the Balkans and Europe's eastern neighborhood, Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa was quoted as saying by Skopje's Sloboden pechat newspaper.
"One of the strategic successes is that we have restored mass enlargement as one of the key strategic projects of the EU. But that required a lot of discussion, "Jansa said in an interview with Slovenian television.
"I have said many times in these debates that after everything we have experienced in the East and what we have seen in the Balkans in recent decades, it must be clear that the EU needs to expand, which expands the space of freedom and prosperity. "We need to get rid of the illusion that things will work out on their own, and if the EU does not expand, then someone else will."
He added that in this way, at meetings in Brussels, he had managed to reintroduce the "membership perspective" in European Union documents instead of the "European perspective" of European countries outside the EU, which he claimed were opposed by some of the old members. - founders of the EU.
There is a lot of opportunism, especially when it comes to the Western Balkans, "Jansa added.
"One of the European leaders, I will not tell him his name, even in the debate he said: why bring them into the European Union when they are as cheap as labor," said Jansha, adding that some old members are narrow-minded or "narrow-minded." nationalist interests ”that prevail over the vision of a free, peaceful and united Europe.
"The European project is not over yet, and many countries that want to become members of the European Union are not yet free. This project must continue, and enlargement is its main element, "Jansa said in an interview with Slovenian television.
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