Famous British author and Oxford professor T.G. Ash: Moldova needs to be part of the E.U.

Famous British author and Oxford professor Timothy Garton Ash recently published an editorial in The Globe and Mail, in which he talked about the future of the European Union.

Mr. Ash noted that "increasingly, the key challenges for the EU lie not within its own borders but beyond them. Geographically, the agenda starts with the rest of Europe that is not yet in the EU. Enlargement fatigue is palpable at every turn, but there is still a lot of Europe to be brought in, before “Europe” is really Europe: the rest of the Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, perhaps Georgia and Armenia, and, as a strategically vital special case, Turkey. Provided they meet all the conditions for membership, we should want these countries to be EU members, in our own long-term enlightened self-interest, as well as in theirs."

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