The European Parliament remains one of the strongest advocates for enlargement, it is why we were the first to call for EU candidate states for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, said the President of the European Parliament in her speech at the Conference of Speakers of the European Union in Budapest.

“All it can offer those people who last year went with conviction to vote for their representatives no matter from which side of the political spectrum to the European Parliament, whose job it is to deliver on the very questions that those citizens want from them. Now we all agree that the EU and project is not perfect.

It is, after all, a constant work in progress. But this should be more, not less, of an incentive to work together. As parliamentary representatives who are democratically elected, it is up to us to set the agenda for our shared continent and to be ambitious, both for our national legislatures and for Europe.

It is not a question of us versus you or you versus us. It is for this reason that the European Parliament remains one of the strongest advocates for enlargement. It is why we were the first to call for EU candidate states for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine”, - said Roberta Metsola.