BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated he’ll journey to the Western Balkans earlier than a gathering of the European Council takes place subsequent month, bearing the message that the area belongs in the European Union.
The six Western Balkan nations with EU membership aspirations – Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo – have been engaged in years-long reform course of, Scholz instructed lawmakers in Berlin on Wednesday.
“Honouring our commitments to them isn’t just a query of our credibility. Today greater than ever, their integration can be in our strategic pursuits,” he stated, pointing to the affect of “exterior powers” in the area, together with Russia.
(Reporting by Thomas Escritt and Rachel More)
