The accession of the Western Balkans to the European Union /EU/ is a geopolitical priority today, said European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Policy Oliver Varhei, who participated in the summit of the Berlin Process.
Varhei wrote on the X social network that "the EU is working with all its tools to speed up the accession process in order to achieve it in the near future."
The Berlin Process was established in 2014 as a platform to strengthen cooperation between the countries of the Western Balkans and the host countries of the Berlin Process, as well as the EU. The Forum aims to assist countries in the region in achieving European standards and bring concrete benefits to the citizens of the region. The main idea of the initiative is to support the process of European integration of the countries of the Western Balkans, and the activity of the process is directed in three main directions: economy and connectivity; reconciliation and good neighborly relations; security.
Participants in the process are the countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Serbia, the Republic of North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Kosovo, as well as the countries - Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Great Britain, Poland, Greece and Bulgaria. . | BGNES
