EEC by another name

[darmstadt]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-62967084

Love this bit
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UK officials are said to be seeking assurances that the meeting will not be too dominated by EU countries or institutions.

Britain would want to see other "big players" from outside the EU in attendance.
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nearly every country in Europe wants to join the EU

[vetran]

A thorn by any other name?

Mr Macron suggested the group could discuss security, energy and transport as well as the movement of people, particularly the young.

The broad intention is to establish a forum that goes beyond the immediate 27 EU member states.

Similar ideas have been floated for decades but this is the first big push for such a forum since Brexit.

Critics, within the EU, are wary of what they see as a "vague" French-led project.

There's also suspicion that France, a known sceptic of EU expansion, wants to create a "parking lot" for countries who aspire to join the European Union.

EU leaders have insisted the community would not "replace" its enlargement policy.

[darmstadt]

https://mind.ua/en/news/20242107-bor...against-russia

[Paddy]

[vetran]

https://mind.ua/en/news/20242107-bor...against-russia

hmm

It is noted that due to the vague position of some countries on the prospects of Ukraine's membership in the European Union, Johnson is trying to respond to Brussels by proposing a new system of political, economic and military alliances.

It is expected that the new alliance may bring together countries dissatisfied with the EU's position and Germany's response to russia's military aggression.

Johnson was the first to express such a proposal during a meeting with Zelensky in Kyiv on April 9.

The proposed European Community model will include the UK as the leader of the organization and countries such as Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and possibly Turkey at a later stage.

“The British Prime Minister believes that the alliance should include countries united by distrust of Brussels, as well as Germany's reaction to russia's military aggression,” the newspaper says.

now that would be interesting.