Germany has made the EU integration of the Western Balkans a top priority for the government as their accession is geopolitically important for the EU, German chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday evening (19 May).
EU leaders failed to make any further tangible commitment to enlargement on Wednesday (6 October), and instead promised once again “the European perspective” and broader economic support to the increasingly disillusioned Western Balkans, in the hope of keeping the region on its European path.
Nine EU member states have called on the EU’s chief diplomat, Joseph Borrell, to have a strategic discussion on the Western Balkan countries and their prospects when EU foreign ministers meet in April, according to a letter made available to EURACTIV.
