Joint agenda of Serbia, Albania and Northern Macedonia at the European Union Summit – Western Balkans.

The political leaders of Serbia, Albania and northern Macedonia have agreed to attend a joint agenda of the EU-Western Balkans Summit to be held on June 23rd in Brussels.

After two days of consultations, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and the Prime Ministers of Albania and Northern Macedonia, Edi Rama and Dimitar Kovacevski, decided to attend the Summit, expressing common positions on its regional perspective. Belgrade, Tirana and Skopje have been considering abstaining from the EU-Western Balkans summit in recent days in protest of stagnation in the European integration process in general, and in particular Bulgaria’s refusal to allow accession. negotiations with Northern Macedonia and Albania. Finally, the leaders of the three Balkan countries decided to go to Brussels.

“After detailed and extensive consultations, the leaders of the three countries decided to participate in the summit together, agreeing on basic principles that will be the focus of talks with numerous EU officials,” the statement issued by the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia reads. .

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama reaffirmed the joint representation of the three Balkan countries.

“We will be attending the EU Council meeting. We do not expect to hear much about ourselves, but we will ask to be heard for the idea of ​​a New European Political Community that we support, for the ‘Open Balkans’ scheme that it is promoting. “European spirit and our hostage-taking from Bulgaria, which is destroying it (s.s. the European spirit),” Eddie Rama said in a Twitter post.

Source: Capital

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