Germany’s foreign minister said Monday that the right for individual EU member states to veto decisions must be scrapped, saying that the 27-member bloc cannot be hamstrung by single hold-outs.
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“We can no longer be held hostage by those who paralyze European foreign policy through their vetoes,” Heiko Maas said. “I therefore say quite openly: the veto must go -- even if that means we too can be outvoted.”
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