# EU enlargement is the bloc’s ‘most powerful’ tool, says Austrian foreign minister

https://mins.news/en/video/101042

- euronews, 2026-10-15 08:02 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rGiE691Nk

> Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger calls EU enlargement the bloc’s most powerful geostrategic instrument. She describes the reforms required for Western Balkan countries to join as complicated and bureaucratic.

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