Western Balkans countries pledge support for new EU growth plan, as they seek membership in the bloc
The leaders of Western Balkan countries pledged Monday to make full use of the European Union’s financial support plan of six billion euros (about $6.5 billion) as they continue to seek membership in the bloc.
European Union offers a new growth plan to Western Balkans that partly opens access to single market
Leaders from the European Union offered a new growth plan to the Western Balkans at a summit in Albania’s capital on Monday, opening parts of the EU single market and asking for deep-rooted reforms ahead of membership in the bloc for the six countries of the region.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy visits Athens to attend meeting of Balkan leaders with top EU officials
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Greece for talks with the country’s leadership and to attend an informal meeting of Balkan leaders with top European Union officials.
EU and Western Balkans leaders meet for enlargement talks
EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel are on Monday (21 August) attending an informal dinner on EU enlargement in the Greek capital Athens.
In October, the commission will report, as it regularly does, on the progress of negotiations with the Balkan countries, before European leaders decide whether to open full accession negotiations. A decision is expected at the EU summit in December.
Four hours in bumper to bumper traffic on the #Serbia#Bulgaria border. I am laughing on the outside, but feel an immense anger at the wasted fossil fuels and lives for this European #Frontex nonsense. Every smug European needs to go through the non-Schengen borders with a non-EU passport at least once. Then talk about how the #WesternBalkans are not civilized enough to join. Especially those colonialists the Dutch.