Reuters: Western Balkan Leaders to Sign Assembly Agreement in Berlin

This agency shows that Western Balkan leaders will sign three agreements for mutual recognition of ID cards, university diplomas and professional qualifications.

According to Reuters, moves towards closer integration aim to bring greater stability to a region that emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia and the ethnic wars of the 1990s and is still under tension.

“is also intended to become a rapper between Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania with their stated goal of integrating into the neighbouring European Union amid fears of the growing influence of Russia and China in the region”.

Serbia, in particular, which was bombed by NATO two decades ago, has long struggled to balance Russian close ties historically against aspirations for economic and political integration with the West”.

One of the German government officials said Tuesday that Serbia must decide whether it wants to join the European Union or enter into a partnership with Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will host leaders of six Balkan countries and the EU in Berlin on Thursday as a revival of the so-called “Berlin Process” that his predecessor Angela Merkel set in motion.