Expansion
EU not ready to take on new member states, Bettel says
Luxembourg in 1957 was one of six founding members of what is now the EU.
Now is not the time to expand the 28-nation European Union by admitting new member states because there is too much to sort out within the bloc, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel said on Friday.
Luxembourg in 1957 was one of six founding members of what is now the EU. It expanded in 1973 and took in mostly central and eastern European states in 2004 and 2007. Croatia became the most recent country to join, in 2013.
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