Elimination Of Nation State Veto Takes EU Closer To United States Of Europe

In what may be the beginning of the end for European nations, Germany and France are determined to reform national rights, including the EU right of veto, this year. The debate has caused a stir in recent months, and in recent weeks, the measure has been put back on the agenda.

France and Germany are convinced that a large-scale institutional reform of the European Union, including the abolition of the veto on European Council votes, could be achieved this year, French EU Affairs Minister Laurence Boone and German Minister of State Anna Lührmann told Euractiv.

"This is one of the options we want to explore in order to maintain our position as a global player with the EU's common foreign and security policy," Lührmann said. He added that "it would be an important signal in other policy areas if we were to move to qualified majority voting already this year" and expressed confidence that this would happen. READ MORE