Austria will take the EU presidency this July, and one of the country’s biggest media outlets, Der Standard, has made a special article for Albania’s EU accession negotiations.
“The French Resistance against EU accession talks”, says the title of the article, noting that there is resistance from Paris, despite the progress in Albania.
Der Standard says that the EU diplomats in Berlin actually consider the judiciary reform a model for the other candidate countries.
“No Southeastern European country has had such a reform”, writes the Austrian media, underlining that this is the first time that Albanians believe that corruption can be fought wih seriousness. They add that the opposition is trying to undermine the judiciary reform.
The Austrian newspaper says that France, Denmark and Netherlands are seeing some resistance from their politicians. However, it is possible that Paris may vote against on June 28th and 29th.
President Macron’s desire is that they stop discussing enlargement until the EU elections of 2019, fearing that it will attract euro-skeptics.
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