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Post by sevenofnine on Jun 1, 2023 11:55:47 GMT -5
YEAH there is lot of hositlaies in certain part of Serbia Twenty years after promises of quick accession made at the Thessaloniki Summit, the current vision in Brussels is not opening new and better perspectives for aspirant countries, Vesko Garčević writes. Do the European Union and the Western Balkans share the same future? The question may sound like an oxymoron, given the habit of the union's leaders to repeat that "the future of the Balkans is inside the EU". To corroborate this point, they commonly quote the declaration from the June 2003 EU/Western Balkans Thessaloniki Summit when quick accession to the bloc was promised to the region still reeling from the violent dissolution of the former Yugoslavia. The summit encapsulated great expectations of the aspirants as well as Brussels’ enthusiastic support for enlargement and a desire to grant full-fledged membership to the region's countries. Two decades after Thessaloniki, while gearing up for the Second European Political Community Summit held this Thursday www.euronews.com/2023/06/01/is-eu-membership-dream-for-the-western-balkans-a-slowly-fading-prospect-with-no-future
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