7 hours agoSpain against Kosovo again: We don't sign statements with countries we don't know as states.
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)At the European Union's joint summit with Western Balkan countries, to be held during May in Sofia, Bulgaria, it was scheduled to hang out with a joint statement. The initial plan, according to Spanish media, was for the declaration to be signed by candidate countries and potentially candidate for membership. But this idea [...]
At the European Union's joint summit with Western Balkan countries, to be held during May in Sofia, Bulgaria, it was scheduled to hang out with a joint statement.
The initial plan, according to Spanish media, was for the declaration to be signed by candidate countries and potentially candidate for membership.
But this idea has been rejected by Madrid, and Kosovo has become the cause. “El Pais” says Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy rejected this with the reasoning that he does not want to sign his signature in the same document that will sign even the leaders of territories Spain does not recognise as states”.
However, both Bulgaria, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, and Brussels denied Spain to have placed such a veto, stating that from the beginning it was decided that the joint declaration would be signed only by European Union member states.
Meanwhile, Romania, Greece, Cyprus and Slovakia, the other four countries that together with Spain make up the five EU members who do not recognise Kosovo, “had expressed readiness to sign a common text, if Spain would do so”.
The Serbian news agency Tanjug says that in the text distributed by Sofia to the Western Balkan countries for advising the final declaration did not mention the word <x0-state”, but “parter” and that fact in Serbia interprets it as an attempt to compromise with EU members who do not recognise Kosovo's independence.
