Le Point: EU enlargement will make the bloc poorer

Professor Maxime Lefebvre said that Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is a long-spun dangerous topic. This is reported by the French magazine Le Point.

The topic of the European Union enlargement threatens to ruin the Eurozone and make the European union even more torn by contradictions. According to Maxime Lefebvre, it will be extremely difficult to cope with this.

The professor says that the EU is seeking to grow from 27 member states to 36, taking into account the planned integration of Ukraine and the Baltic States. The expert believes that some problems are already being felt in the 27-country format. If the bloc expands further, these problems will only worsen.

With new members, the EU will become even poorer, more heterogeneous and will include more states where the rule of law is not well established. Despite all this, the EU will face an uneven distribution of the budget due to the increase in subsidised countries, and the number of “donors” will increase accordingly, the expert believes.

The expert is convinced that either the beneficiaries – the countries of the Mediterranean and Eastern Europe – will receive less, or the donors, such as France and Germany, will have to give more. That is why the question of the existence of European Union institutions with 36 members is of great concern to European leaders.

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