A new enlargement methodology to be offered to EU member states was worked out at the Paris Presidential Palace this weekend. Vice President of the French Senate Hélène Conway-Mouret told Artan Grubi, Speaker of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, at a meeting on Monday.

What I was told was very encouraging that this weekend they were working at the Presidential Palace in Paris and that they would soon come up with a new enlargement methodology to be offered to EU member states, which is a new moment on which we could build our narrative in a time of vacuum between the non-adoption of the decision and a new summit not knowing what would happen within the EU, Grubi said.

The meeting discussed the political situation in our country, but also in the European Union after the non-adoption of the decision at EU member states summit in October.

I asked her and the French authorities the uncertainty following the non-adoption of the decision in October to be filled with a concrete offer by France to member states to know how to fill the vacuum between October and the Union’s new summit in May in Zagreb, Grubi said.

In addition to the enlargement methodology, at the meeting with Conway-Mouret, Grubi also referred to the law on public prosecution, ie SPO’s merge with the public prosecution, as well as the law on narcotic drugs that is in parliamentary procedure, as well as other reform laws to be adopted and implemented until the next summit in Zagreb.

The law on narcotic drugs, as Grubi said, was mentioned in the context of the use of the European flag and the shortened procedure and that much more debating was needed on that law.