The Franco-German axis has taken over the reformation of the European Union. President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz seek, before the new accessions to the Union and before the subsequent European elections, to provide the EU with efficient decision-making tools and prevent the European building from "collapsing" under sovereign blows.
The aim is to prevent Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, or someone like him, from paralyzing the bloc. The Macron-Scholz plan is mainly based on radical changes, transforming unanimous voting into a simple majority.
It is no longer a secret that, like Orban who blockaded Ukraine, each leader of the 27 member states now represents a time mine, ready to explode again and again in the heart of the EU and on the path of European integration.
The pact between French Macron and German Scholz was signed in the days before the last European Council. Anticipating that Hungary would go all out - as it later did - against Ukraine and against EU enlargement, both agreed that at this point the reform of the European Treaties, especially on the rule of unanimous voting, should be implemented.
The Western Balkan countries are expected to benefit from this policy change, which, as in the case of Albania and Greece, have bilateral disputes on various issues.
Scholz has said publicly that the enlargement process, at least in the case of Albania, should not be held hostage by Athens through demands that do not have to do with fulfilling the conditions.
However, time is limited to reform the EU, and the Franco-German duo must complete the reform by mid-March.