The EU has explicitly committed itself to "EU membership as ultimate goal" for the Western Balkans in an statement by foreign ministers in Salzburg, Austria on Saturday (11 March) after overnight pressure by five Western Balkan countries to strengthen the wording of an earlier draft.
The statement was issued jointly by the 25 foreign ministers of the EU, its three candidate countries (Turkey, Croatia and Macedonia) and the foreign ministers of the other western Balkan countries hoping t...
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