EU: Balkan security cannot be taken for granted

The foreign and defence ministers of EU member states have approved the strategic Compas” strategic framework for security vision in Brussels at the next decade. Although work on drafting this document had begun two years earlier, Russia's aggression against Ukraine has settled in the document and influenced its final version.

EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell has said that when work is under way in this strategic document, no one has been able to imagine what challenges we will face today.

In the document, the EU vows to work with partners worldwide to strengthen security and protect common values. In this regard, the European bloc has mentioned the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, but also the Western Balkans and neighboring countries.

The situation and security challenges in the Western Balkans, especially the internal crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the dialogue on normalising reports between Kosovo and Serbia, are also mentioned in this strategic EU document.

The document says that “the security and stability of the Western Balkans cannot be meant as the work done”. As security challenges are cited the effects of external factors, including through dezinformom campaigns, but also the possibility of the crisis being carried to the Balkans and other parts of Europe.

The “, with particular interest, is to support Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, based on equality and non-disciplification of all citizens and constitutional peoples, as stated in the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the process of reforms on European roads and to advance dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, facilitated by the EU”, the document states.

Also, the EU's strategic document repeats the need for progress in rule of law.