Financial Times: EU plan is to membership six Balkan countries, including Kosovo

According to the list, the main reason for such a move from Brussels is for the Balkans to serve in the key “ ” through which thousands of immigrants migrate to the soil of the European Union. However, that is not all. “FT” stresses that EU strategists fear that Russia is dangerous in expanding its area of influence, in the area where it traditionally has allies.

A considerable number of citizens, i.e., believe their country will never join the EU,” said Florian Biber, a Southeast European expert at the University of Graz.

The new Brussels plan will be presented to the European Commission on 6 February, when the EU is due, according to earlier reports, to present its plan for the Western Balkans. It is expected that the new plan will be approved, according to “Fiential Times”, Periscopi broadcast.

The deadline for the EU's big “expansion” is the date already mentioned in the Serbian public as a framework by which Serbia should be admitted to the EU, which is 2025.

Many, however, believe this is ambitious, but EU diplomats say it is very necessary in order to reinforce ties between Brussels and the country resulting from the break-up of RSFJ.”

An EU diplomat who supported Union enlargement said the list of six countries are not outside the EU, but are already inside and that they need Brussels. ”

Also, according to his words in 2025, the frames are subject to change.

However, “Financial Times” stresses that all six countries would need, before eventual EU accession, to finally resolve all open issues that have existed for years, as well as corruption problems.

In that sense, as noted, the closest to achieving 2025 goal is Serbia and Montenegro. /Periscopi/