The European Commission will ask EU countries to abandon the right of veto on defense and sanctions n

The European Commission is preparing to present an initiative that could seriously change the decision-making mechanism in the EU: on October 6, EU countries will be proposed to abandon the veto right in key areas, including in the field of defense, sanctions and expansion of the Union, and switch to the principle of decision-making by majority vote. It's from sb.by.

According to TASS, the key goal of the changes is to adapt the rules of the EU to the prospect of admission of new countries. The European Commission believes that the system should rely less on consensus and more on majority voting, including on sensitive topics such as security, defence, sanctions and EU enlargement.

Special attention is paid to the process of accession of new states: The European Commission proposes to remove the requirement of unanimous approval at each stage of admission of candidates. This should help remove blockages and significantly speed up the procedure. At the same time, the plan includes special restrictions for new EU members – they will not be able to block the work of the union in the first years after accession.

The proposals will be presented at the European Parliament session in Strasbourg on October 6 and then discussed at the EU summit in Brussels on October 15-16. In order to approve a plan to reject unanimous decision-making, the European Commission will need unanimous approval of the EU member states themselves. In other words, the member states will have to voluntarily give up their own veto power on key European policy issues.

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