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Dave Keating
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The rumour going around is that the Western Balkan leaders are very unhappy with how this morning’s mini-summit went. Several EU leaders didn’t even bother to show up. The press conference by VDL, Michel & Macron has been cancelled, Weatern Balkan leaders about to hold their own
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Dave Keating
@DaveKeating
This would be a pretty bad result considering the main point of this morning’s Western Balkans leaders meeting was to smooth over anger about Ukraine & Moldova being given fast-track candidate status while W Balkans have had every conceivable roadblock thrown in front of them
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Dave Keating
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For years, the Western Balkans have been told their eventual place in the EU is assured, a matter of destiny, but the process needs to be slower than the previous Eastern enlargement wave of the 00s. Then suddenly Ukraine & Moldova have rapidly leapfrogged them.
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Dave Keating
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A Balkan journalist here at the summit just wryly observed, "maybe we need to have another war for the EU to let us in".
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Dave Keating
@DaveKeating
🇲🇰🇷🇸🇦🇱 PMs holding furious press conference now after this morning’s failed mtg 🇲🇰PM: “Given circumstances at today’s #EUCO” he expressed his government and peoples’ “dissatisfaction with the accession process” “It is time for 🇪🇺 to fulfill its promises before making new ones”
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Dave Keating
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🇲🇰PM Kovačevski notes N Macedonia has been in 🇪🇺accession process for 18 years (🇺🇦 just got candidate status in 115 days) "What's happened now is a serious blow to credibility of 🇪🇺 We're wasting precious time we dont have. 🇲🇰&🇦🇱, the region, we can’t be stuck in this situation"
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Dave Keating
@DaveKeating
🇦🇱PM Edi Rama after this morning’s disastrous W Balkans meeting: “I have deep sorrow for 🇪🇺. I feel sorry for them, and I hope we can help” “It’s not simply Bulgaria, lets say the truth. The enlargement spirit has gone from a shared vision of a community to a kidnapping vehicle”
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Dave Keating
@DaveKeating
🇦🇱PM Rama says EU enlargement is now “crooked” and “Bulgaria is only the most stunning expression” of this crookedness, where decisions and analysis are based on politics rather than facts.
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Dave Keating
@DaveKeating
Wow. The Albanian PM is now condemning the Serbian President, standing at other side of this press conference, for supporting Russia. “A country where Vladimir Putin’s popularity is 80%, where public opinion is not so keen to run to Brussels” Macedonian PM standing between them
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Dave Keating
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The Serbian president is striking a much more conciliatory tone toward 🇪🇺: “More than 20 EU leaders were listening to us for 3-4 hours.” “This is why we need Macron’s proposal for a new European Political Community to be accepted. That’s the only way for us to be heard”.
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Dave Keating
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🇷🇸President Vučić also has conciliatory words for his 🇦🇱&🇲🇰 colleagues. I don’t think he took 🇦🇱PM Rama’s words as a personal attack, but rather as a description of public opinion in #Serbia.
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Dave Keating
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🇷🇸President Vučić ends with praise for his 🇦🇱&🇲🇰 counterparts for fighting valiantly during this morning's meeting, noting that if he the Serbian president says it, you know you can believe it. "It was an important meeting, it was a good summit"
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Dave Keating
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🇦🇱PM Rama jokes that he wonders what will be 🇭🇷Croatia’s reaction when Serbia comes close to joining 🇪🇺 [about registering the “Serbian language”]. “They may become our Bulgaria” jokes 🇷🇸PM Vučić.
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Dave Keating
@DaveKeating
BREAKING: After all that - it appears the Bulgarian Parliament has just now voted to accept the French compromise and lift the veto on starting North Macedonia’s accession talks. Announcement by the 🇧🇬 prime minister expected imminently.
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Stefan Baychev
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@DaveKeating
Problem is Macedonian Prime Minister does not agree with the French proposal .. sell it to him first, then they should ask Bulgarians to rubber stamp.
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Dokule 🌹
@Dokule
Bulgaria rejected the French Proposal in its current form as well.
Daniel Vutov
@daniel_vutov
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@DaveKeating
It’s not about convincing him , it’s about the parliament to take decision but since you are pushing for the decision even if 🇧🇬 is the second country having the same problems , it’s obvious you the westerns don’t care!
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