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Austria Advocates Accelerated EU Integration of the Western Balkans
Austria's Minister of European Affairs Karoline Edtstadler and Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg show a profound commitment to the integration of the Western Balkan countries into the European Union (EU). They recently sent concrete proposals in a letter and a "non-paper" to EU External Relations Commissioner Josep Borrell and Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi. The central theme of these proposals is to accelerate the enlargement process and clarify the agenda for 2024 and beyond.
Austria repeatedly presents itself as the advocate of the Southeast European EU accession candidates, and this also has self-serving reasons. / Picture: © Vindobona.org
Since Ukraine gained EU candidate status, there has been growing concern that the Western Balkans could be sidelined in the European Union's enlargement policy. For countries like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, northern Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, the wait for EU accession never seems to end. But the Western Balkans is not just any backyard of Europe; many, including…
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