Wadephul: ensuring the EU is able to act effectively
The German foreign minister is calling for changes in the way EU decisions are made in foreign and security policy.
Berlin (dpa) – German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is urging the European Union to abandon the unanimity principle soon. “In order to be able to act effectively on the international stage and truly come of age, we should abolish the unanimity principle in EU foreign and security policy before the end of this legislative term,” he told newspapers of the Funke Media Group.
“I support working with a system of qualified majority voting in the European Union. “All the recent experience we have gained with aid for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia points in this direction,” Wadephul added.
Hungary, governed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is currently blocking a 90-billion-euro EU loan for Ukraine. Orbán accuses Ukraine of preventing the resumption of Russian oil deliveries via the Druzhba pipeline.
