Strong rejection of Balkan countries' EU membership comes from Germany

A few days before the important elections in Bhavari, the far-right German party “Alternative to Germany”, says no to the membership of Western Balkan countries in the EU.

At a news conference in Berlin, the spokesperson for this EU-related party, Harald Weyel, and Western Balkan rapporteur Siegbert Droese, gave the main cause for rejecting the Western Balkans in the EU the corruption link to the government's highest levels with organised crime.

This model has been transformed into the model of their governance. We disagree with automatism, so that since 2025 the first countries, such as Montenegro or Serbia, will enter the EU. We need more time and these countries must offer something on our own before we enter concrete negotiations with them”, he said.

Another concern related to this rejection of the Western Balkans of Germany's right-right populist party is the increasing weight of Eastern and South European countries with their EU membership.

For this reason, “AfD” proposes that these countries create their own union, according to the Beneluks model, transmits tch.

“Beyond a major EU option, there is the option of a union of Western Balkan countries, which would bring economic harmonisation, the removal of customs, the smoothing of foreign policy, etc., according to the Benelux state model. This plan B or C could well be Plan A”, “spokesman said AfD” on EU issues, Harald Weyel.

According to two politicians, Western Balkan countries are not only geographically, but also culturally at the EU borders. They especially singled out Albania, bringing Turkey's influence in Albania, manifested by the large mosque in Tirana, financed by Erdogan's government.

The AfD intends for EU enlargement with these countries to be asked not only, as the current law, Bundestag predicts, but all voters through a referendum.