{"id":130085,"date":"2024-04-30T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/european-union-must-enlarge-or-face-new-iron-curtain-president-michel-warns\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T07:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:35:10","slug":"european-union-must-enlarge-or-face-new-iron-curtain-president-michel-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/european-union-must-enlarge-or-face-new-iron-curtain-president-michel-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union must enlarge or face \u2018new Iron Curtain,\u2019 President Michel warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130085\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe European Union must get bigger or risk facing a &#8220;new Iron Curtain&#8221; along its eastern flank, European Council President Charles Michel said Monday as the bloc marks 20 years since its largest ever enlargement. &#8220;Enlargement is vital for the future of the EU because without enlargement [there is] a risk for a new Iron Curtain,&#8221; Michel said in an interview with a select group of journalists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would be extremely dangerous if you would have an unstable neighbourhood with a lack of prosperity or lack of economic development. These are our common interests &#8211; of candidate countries and the EU &#8211; to make progress, to speed up,&#8221; he added. His stark warning comes on the anniversary of the so-called big bang enlargement of 2004 when ten countries &#8211; including seven former Soviet republics or satellite states &#8211; were granted EU membership.<\/p>\n<p>Had it not been for that historic expansion, the EU as it is today would be split by a &#8220;de facto Iron Curtain,&#8221; Michel said, meaning those countries on the eastern side would have been targeted by &#8220;political and ideological attempts by the Kremlin to occupy them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nine countries from eastern Europe and the Western Balkans are currently waiting in the wings to become fully-fledged EU members. The process of joining the bloc is notoriously long and complex, with candidate countries required to meet tough EU demands, including significant judicial and constitutional reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Russia&#8217;s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has injected fresh impetus into the EU&#8217;s dormant enlargement policy, attempts to speed up the accession process risk being thwarted by more sceptical member states. Critics say long delays in integrating candidate countries are fomenting a sense of exasperation with Brussels. Last December, Hungary&#8217;s Viktor Orb\u00e1n &#8211; whose government will hold the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the EU from July &#8211; threatened to single-handedly halt the opening of accession talks with Ukraine by wielding his veto power.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/04\/29\/european-union-must-enlarge-or-face-new-iron-curtain-president-michel-warns\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/04\/29\/european-union-must-enlarge-or-face-new-iron-curtain-president-michel-warns\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/european-union-must-enlarge-or-face-new-iron-curtain-president-michel-warns\/\">European Union must enlarge or face \u2018new Iron Curtain,\u2019 President Michel warns<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,274,14340,11254],"class_list":["post-130085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-eu","tag-iron-curtain","tag-michel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}