Charles Michel: EU should be ready for enlargement by 2030

The EU must be ready to accept new members by 2030, reads the draft speech of European Council President Charles Michel at the opening of the 18th Bled Strategic Forum, Report informs referring to the Financial Times.

“If we want to be credible, we must talk about timing,” Michel will say in a speech today in Slovenia, according to written remarks seen by the FT. “As we prepare the EU’s next strategic agenda, we must set ourselves a clear goal…we must be ready, on both sides, by 2030 to enlarge.”

“We must now address enlargement as one of our major challenges. Both for the EU and for its future member states,” Michel will tell the Bled Strategic Forum and an audience set to include leaders from candidate countries Moldova, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.