{"id":1397855,"date":"2026-05-26T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/eu-discusses-limiting-veto-rights-for-new-member-states\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:25:51","slug":"eu-discusses-limiting-veto-rights-for-new-member-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/eu-discusses-limiting-veto-rights-for-new-member-states\/","title":{"rendered":"EU discusses limiting veto rights for new member states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1118\" data-end=\"1214\"><strong>The European Union has begun discussing the possibility of temporarily limiting the veto right for new member states.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1241\"> The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/26\/eu-could-deny-new-member-states-veto-rights-as-bloc-pushes-for-enlargement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes<\/a> about this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1243\" data-end=\"1394\"> Brussels fears that after the EU&#8217;s enlargement, individual states may block important decisions of the Union &#8211; just as Hungary has done in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1396\" data-end=\"1543\"> Therefore, the EU is considering an option under which new members will not have the right to block decisions in the field of foreign policy, sanctions, or taxes for a certain period of time.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1674\"> According to the publication, the first country to which such a mechanism could be applied is Montenegro &#8211; it is currently closest to joining the EU.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1676\" data-end=\"1776\"> The European Union itself admits that the idea is quite controversial, so it is only a temporary restriction.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1895\"> At the same time, the EU is increasingly saying that without internal reforms, the Union will find it difficult to work after a new enlargement.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"2058\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The article also mentions Ukraine separately. Brussels considers it a special case due to the war, the scale of the future recovery, and its important role for European security.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union has begun discussing the possibility of temporarily limiting the veto right for new member states. The Guardian writes about this. Brussels fears that after the EU&#8217;s enlargement, individual states may block important decisions of the Union &#8211; just as Hungary has done in recent years. Therefore, the EU is considering an option [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":849276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76885,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1397855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}