DETAILS of the meeting/ Foreign Ministers of the Western Balkans and of the member countries of the Berlin Process arrive in Tirana today!

2023-10-06 09:00:30Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

DETAILS of the meeting/ Foreign Ministers of the Western Balkans and of the

The Foreign Ministers of the Western Balkans (BP) and those of the member countries of the Berlin Process are holding a preparatory meeting today (October 6) in Tirana for the next summit of this process.

Official sources from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs inform DW that in addition to the Foreign Ministers of the Western Balkan countries, those from the member countries of the Berlin Process will participate in Friday's meeting.

The foreign minister of Germany, Annalena Baerbock, the Commissioner for Enlargement in the European Commission, Oliver Varhelyi, the Foreign Ministers of Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Regional Cooperation Council, are expected to participate in the meeting. RCC) and the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO). The meeting in Tirana takes place within the framework of the next summit of this process, which will take place in Tirana on October 16, for the first time in a non-EU country.

DETAILS of the meeting/ Foreign Ministers of the Western Balkans and of the

The meeting will be chaired by Igli Hasani, the foreign minister of Albania, the country that welcomes the 2023 Berlin Process Summit.

The focus of the meeting will be the strengthening of the regional dimension in the Berlin Process and the special importance of this process for the integration of the Western Balkans in the EU.

Another focus is expected to be the strengthening of the commitment related to the Common Regional Market, the four basic freedoms, the Green Agenda, the Digital Agenda and the alignment of BP with the EU Single Market.

The Berlin process is a diplomatic initiative, initiated by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in August 2014 to give new impulses and accelerate the pace of BP's entry into the EU.

Russia's war in Ukraine has turned accelerating the pace of the Western Balkans integration process into a geo-strategic priority of the EU./ DW


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