The new European Commission led by Ursula von der Layen has yet another\ngreat thorn to face in terms of further or no enlargement of the EU. The new\nCommission Committee should decide whether the EU will be enlarged by including\nthe Western Balkan countries. A very difficult decision, given that the EU\nmember-countries are divided between two ‘opposing’ camps on this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is prohibited\nby intellectual property law or in any way illegal use of this article, with\nheavy civil and criminal penalties for the offender.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Germany, Italy, the Commission as well as the member-countries of the\nEastern EU are in favour of the EU enlargement which will include the countries\nof the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, those who oppose EU enlargement including the Western\nBalkans are EU member countries such as France, Holland, Denmark, etc. who\ninsist on refusing to give the Western Balkan countries a mandate to start\naccession negotiations in Albania and North Macedonia equally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The proposals that are heard in Brussels are to meet the request of\nNorthern Macedonia and to transferred Albania’s request later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n North Macedonia and after the signing of the Prespa Treaty (2018) had\ninvested in speeding up the process of EU membership and always using the\nargument that if it does not enter in EU, the risk of destabilizing will be\nvisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, if Albania only gets an extension and promise of a\nfuture start of negotiations, it will be put on track introversion further\nhighlighting the nationalistic movements that want union with the other\nAlbanian populations in Balkans (Kosovo, North Macedonia) against Albanians who\nare supporters of Albania’s European path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Albania’s leaders in their effort to blackmail developments are saying that\nthe Union of Albanian populations in the Balkan peninsula should be achieved\neither by integrating Albania, Northern Macedonia, and Kosovo into the EU or\noutside the EU where will be created separatist and destabilizing movements\nthat could lead to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The EU is most likely not to close the door to the Western Balkan countries\n(Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro) but to choose\nto impose a guide road that requires more political reforms in social,\npolitical and economic level in each of these countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new European Commission led by Ursula von der Layen has yet another great thorn to face in terms of further or no enlargement…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[825,3],"tags":[25,2166,778,258,355],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-geopolitical","category-geopolitical","tag-eu","tag-eu-and-western-balkans","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-western-balkans","tag-western-balkans-geopolitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}