r/europeanunion • u/Miao_Yin8964 • 4d ago

Ukraine gets backing of Lithuania to bypass Hungarys EU block

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u/Cefalopodul 3d ago

Not really

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u/tcptomato 3d ago

Yes, really. Considering that is how Romania also progressed, you should know ...

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u/Cefalopodul 3d ago

That is not how Romania progressed at all. Romania was required to show concrete improvements before technical talks started.

We were given a big fat task list and technical talks only started when most chapters were cleared.

The only reason Romania was even considered as a potential candidate because Tony Blair made a deal with Constantinescu to vouch for Romania in exchange of Romania allowing NATO to traverse its air space and use its railways and roads in 1999.

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u/tcptomato 2d ago

You do know that we're talking about opening those chapters now so that work can be done to clear them?