The EU feeds the Western Balkans only with promises
At the EU-Balkans summit, which will be held on October 6 in Slovenia, specific dates for the Balkan countries to join the EU are unlikely to appear.
Kommersant writes about this, citing its European diplomatic sources, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“At the summit it is important to adopt a joint declaration, which requires consensus. And today it is unrealistic to reach full agreement on the timing of integration for the Balkans,” said one of the publication’s interlocutors.
Many regional experts are also skeptical.
“Ursula von der Leyen’s tour is unlikely to reduce all sources of tension in the Balkans. The European Union is not in shock because of the Balkan crises; all that is important to Brussels is that things do not escalate into an armed conflict. The European Union leaves everything that is outside this “red line” to be sorted out by the countries of the region themselves,” said Belgrade foreign policy expert Boško Jaksic.
At the moment, such Balkan countries as Albania, North Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro remain outside the EU, with which negotiations are underway on joining the European Union, which is postponed each time. In addition, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Kosovo, which was forcibly torn away from Serbia, whose independence was recognized by the majority of EU members, are called potential candidates.
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