Brussels tries to relaunch membership of Albania and North Macedonia

Correspondent in Brussels

Discussions for the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the EU came to a halt in October. France, the Netherlands and Denmark had vetoed, setting off a storm like the Union rarely knows. It is "a serious historic error" , had ex-chaired the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.

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Will the process start again when the United Kingdom left the bloc a few days ago, that the enlargement of the Union to the Balkan countries is displayed as a priority by Ursula von der Leyen and that six countries knock on the door of the EU (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia)? The Commission has, in any case, tried Wednesday to erase this bad sequence of the end of 2019 and to regain control by presenting a reform of the accession process which would in particular reassure France and which is inspired

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