2 minutes agoSpain refuses to have state symbols at EU-Western Balkans summit
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will participate in the European Union Summit with the Western Balkans in Slovenia on Wednesday, where Kosovo will participate. However, as the cataline medium writes, “El Nacional”, Spain has been guaranteed that since it does not recognise Kosovo as a state, there will be symbols identifying [...]
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti will attend this year's summit. Last year it was kept on videoconference due to pandemic. The last time he had physical meetings was 2018, where Spain refused to participate because of Kosovo.
As this medium writes, even last year there have been no symbols identifying Kosovo as a state, and that this will not happen this year, at Spain's request.
There is not expected to be any flag or symbol of any state that are usually part of the table.
Besides Spain, there are four other European Union states that recognise Kosovo: Greece, Romania, Cyprus and Slovakia. EU leaders gather in Brdo with leaders of the Western Balkan states: Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Even though Spain recognises Kosovo, it advocates Kosovo dialogue Serbia until reaching a legally binding agreement. This state has expressed support for expanding the EU with Western Balkan states “but fulfilling all criteria”.
