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Spain hands over the task, Belgium starts the presidency of the EU

2023-12-30 10:52:33Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Spain hands over the task, Belgium starts the presidency of the EU

At the end of 2023, Spain completes the presidency of the European Union (EU) to hand over this task to Belgium.

Thus, Belgium, the country in which the seat of the European Union is located, and which was the first to have the role of chairman when this system was established, will chair for it 13 times in a row. And this chairmanship of Belgium happens at a moment key for the EU since the European elections will take place at the end of this presidency, between June 6 and 9.

And, for Belgium, the day of the elections will be even more important because on the same day as the elections for the European Parliament, the national, regional and local elections will take place. Despite this, the Government of Belgium has promised to have adequate capacity and sufficient focus to carry out the task of the next president successfully.

Even Spain, during its EU presidency in the second half of 2023, went through the electoral process.

Spain, during its presidency with the EU, had among its priorities the enlargement process, and Belgium is also expected to have this.

During Spain's presidency, historic decisions were adopted to start membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova, readiness to start conditional negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina was also expressed, and Georgia was given the status of a candidate country.

There was not a single step regarding Kosovo's application for membership in the EU and this was not expected during the presidency of Spain, which is among the EU member states that strongly opposes Kosovo's independence.

However, Kosovo participated in a summit of the European Political Community that took place in Granada, Spain, as well as in a joint EU-Western Balkans summit, which took place in December in Brussels.

Diplomats in Brussels say that in the first part of 2023, when Sweden held the presidency of the EU, there were attempts for the Council of the EU to examine Kosovo's application for membership in the EU and eventually give a mandate to the European Commission to compiled opinion about this application. But not even Sweden managed to secure the support of all member countries for such a thing, while Spain was among the countries that most opposed it.

Now that Belgium takes the next presidency, it is not clear whether it will review Kosovo's application for EU membership, submitted at the end of 2022 when the Czech Republic held the next presidency.

"This is also a legal issue, since the independence of Kosovo has not been recognized by all the member countries and in the expansion it is decided by consensus. But it is also a political issue as it is also related to Kosovo's behavior in the dialogue process with Serbia and the implementation of the obligations arising from this process", an EU diplomat told Radio Free Europe.


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