Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Are Albania u0026 North Macedonia about to join the EU" video.

  1. For the last decade, it's been difficult for the EU to expand because of absorbing the eastern EU members since 2004, now the EU seems more open to expanding the EU but I don't think the EU will expand until Hungary and Poland are sorted out on their backsliding on democracy. In other words, before there are any new members, the EU needs reforms, especially with vetoes and majority voting, either vetoes need to go away or it needs to be done where you need a percentage of countries onboard and/or a percentage of the EU population onboard to veto something, not like it is now where anyone member can hold the rest to ransom. Until that changes, I suspect no new members will join the EU because one or another EU member will block it and rightly so because it's becoming difficult to manage already, throwing more in the mix will make it even worse, reforms of the EU are needed over the next 3 years, maybe the EU might need to find a way of kicking Hungary and Poland out of the EU if they keep backsliding, which sounds difficult on the surface but let's be honest, the real EU is the Euro Zone, power is likely going to shift more towards that where the outer EU is more of a shell, it's a given that Hungary won't join the Euro and it's unlikely Poland will in the short term, that could be the easier way of kicking them out without actually kicking them out as it sidelines them. The good thing about that, the countries that want to join the Euro are more likely to be progressive countries, so Hungary and Poland are not likely going to join because of that.
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