Three EU nations reject opening negotiations with Albania

France, the Netherlands and Denmark that are currently curbing the opening of membership negotiations. Germany is more of a pro-opener.

According to Reuters Agency for Germany information, there are three countries currently making the opening of EU membership negotiations with Albania and Macedonia uncertain.

They are France, the Netherlands and Denmark. Therefore, it is unclear whether the European Commission will give the green light at the EU summit at the end of June, it is said not only by EC counties but also by the German government.

Within Berlin there are critical voices about the Macron stance that it is not perceiving the geostrategic importance of the Western Balkans to the stability of Europe, Reuters notes. For Macro, there is not much more interest in enlargement than strengthening co-operation within the EU and Eurozone countries. While in Brussels it is said that “Macron has the feeling, that it would open the arm to rightists in politics, because it is immediately thought of Albania to organised criminality”, Reuters writes. The Dutch government also argues its stance against it immediately with inner fears.

The European Commission calls for opening negotiations with Albania and Macedonia, because the two countries have formally met the criteria and the EU must remain its word.

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In Germany too, there are doubts

But even in Germany there are doubts about opening negotiations within the conservative Union. Reuters writes that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Mass, Social Democrat, are still for opening negotiations. Government circles reportedly refer to the start rather than the closure of negotiations that last years. w