Overview
- Manfred Weber, the European People’s Party leader, renewed the call in Monday press interviews to drop unanimity in EU foreign policy decisions.
- German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul had urged over the weekend replacing unanimity with qualified majority voting, where decisions pass if most countries and their people back them.
- Hungary is blocking a €90 billion EU loan to Ukraine, and the country votes on April 12 with polls putting the opposition ahead.
- Weber warned that letting a single state veto action would leave Europe a plaything for leaders like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping.
- Under the EU’s unanimity rule, every government must agree on sensitive areas such as foreign and security policy, which lets one country stop the entire bloc.