4 minutes agoEU no longer agrees for Balkan states to be guaranteed membership
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The European Union, fearing a political response of member states, can no longer be reconciled to provide guarantees for future membership of the six Balkan countries, has disclosed four diplomats and an internal document, Reuters reports. And this can “godet” Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia [...]
And this can “godet” Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania and Northern Macedonia. For coincidence, this is happening at the time tensions have increased in northern Kosovo, along the Kosovo-Serbia border, respectively.
At the summit, the EU planned to repeat the promise given 18 years ago, that “would provide European support to the Western Balkan states”. And according to diplomats, this has spent at least two rounds of talks without any agreement.
The EU states will not reveal their positions, but Denmark, France and Holland are afraid of repeating the haste to bring Romania and Bulgaria into the European Union during 2017, and poor management of workers coming from Eastern Europe to Great Britain, causing many Britons to turn against the Union. The EU.
Bulgaria opposes North Macedonia joining the EU, due to a language dispute. Even if some states agree on language, this reflects on paralyzing EU plans to create a “around friends” from Ukraine to Tunisia.
Even according to EU integration expert John O'Brennan, a legalist at the Maynooth University in Ireland, “if there are still member states, which for one reason or another, believe EU enlargement is not fair, then we are not going anywhere”.
