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Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The European Commission's so controversial strategy for restoring confidence in the enlargement process to the Western Balkans will be adopted Tuesday at the European Commission's college meeting in Strasbourg, after which Commission President Jean Claude Juncker will personally present it to the MEPs, while the high representative [...]
The European Commission gives special importance to this event, and will send senior officials to countries in the region to present it. From earlier drafts, which he has written about from the beginning “Koha Ditore”, little has changed to the text of this document, unless some ideas have been clarified and concreteised.
Recent changes have occurred at the commissionary cabinet chiefs' meeting in Brussels on Friday, and until the last moment it will remain open how the political part of this document will be formulated.
The content of most already known. It has remained accurate how to mention the most advanced states, as well as whether to mention the more advanced states, and to clarify some extremely sensitive sentences, such as “state-capaccuration elements” and “links to all levels of government and administration”.
But whatever the wording is, at the end it is clear that the idea is for Serbia and Montenegro to have deadlines, under which by 2025 they can become members of the European Union, while others by then be advanced to “their respective European path”.
