The French government on Wednesday (23 April) approved plans for constitutional reform that would scrap the obligation for France to hold a referendum on any further enlargement of the EU after Croatia.
The clause making it compulsory to submit all future EU enlargements to a referendum in France was introduced in 2005 by the then-president Jacques Chirac.
"We believe this safeguard doesn't really make sense. It sets a general rule when what we need is a case-by-case approach, in ...
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