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Czech EU Commissioner Füle: Further expansion is solution for EU crisis

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EU enlargement commissioner Štefan Füle tells Czech students crisis in the EU is systematic, further expansion is a solution

Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy foto: © European CommissionČeská pozice

Speaking to students at Charles University’s Faculty of Law in Prague on Monday, the Czech Republic’s only Euro Commissioner, Štefan Füle, said the further expansion of the EU is a solution to the current “systematic” crisis in the EU and is the most effective way to spread European values. Failing expansion, the EU’s so-called neighborhood policies are also an effective tool, he said.

“A lot of people are talking about fatigue from expansion. There are even politicians who have not had problems drawing lines between the current problems and expansion. That’s nonsense. Expansion is not part of the problem but a solution,” Füle was quoted as saying by eurospravy.cz.

“With enlargement we don’t just expand the area of stability, we also expand markets and mobility of workers. As for enlargement fatigue, it’s similar to the Yeti: everybody speaks about it, but nobody has ever seen it,” he said, adding that the EU’s so-called neighborhood policy, which includes the Eastern Partnership initiative with Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and tentatively Belarus, is also an effective means of releasing this goal through various agreements to facilitate mutual trade. 

“Enlargement is the most effective policy how to transfer our values to neighboring states,” he said.

Füle, 49, studied at the Charles University and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where many of the top functionaries of the Soviet Union’s European satellite states were educated. He was a member of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia from 1982 to 1989.

He was officially appointed EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy in February 2010 and is the second Czech Euro Commissioner. The first was Vladimír Špidla, a former Social Democrat (ČSSD) prime minister who served as Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities from 2004 through to 2010.

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