BRUSSELS – Italy and six other EU Member States have pushed back against a proposal by France, Germany and the Benelux countries to build new and restrictive legal safeguards into accession treaties for future members, Euractiv reports. A diplomatic paper circulated in June from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg proposed devising additional safeguards for new member […] The post Seven EU countries push back against Franco-German proposal on limiting rights of new member states appeared first on European Western Balkans .