After talks with his Croatian counterpart, Vladimir Seks, the visiting Bundestag president said that there was no enlargement without "the renewed foundations" for cooperation.
"This was agreed at the summit of heads of state and government in Berlin in March. This is a decision of the European Parliament ... and it is strange that some countries do not take enough note of the position of the European Parliament," Lammert said responding to questions from the press about whether his views regarding the issue he had expressed a few days ago referred also to Croatia, apart from Turkey and Ukraine.
Lammert said that he personally and the entire Germany were interested in Croatia's admission into the European Union, but added that "certain prerequisites" were necessary for this to occur.
We cannot accomplish this objective through the exchange of friendly statements on the intention but through the creation of certain prerequisites. Currently the union has no prerequisites for this and cannot act. An union incapable of acting is incapable of expanding, Lammert said.
He expressed hope that the current difficulties would be resolved at the European Union summit scheduled for 21 and 22 June in Brussels, which would require a lot of good will of all sides, he added.