FT: Western Balkan's hope for fast EU membership fading out after Berlin meeting
N1 Info 30.04.2019 | N1 Belgrade FT
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron have suggested to six western Balkan (WB) countries aspiring to the European Union membership that there is a little immediate prospect of their joining the bloc,” the Financial Times (FT) wrote following the Berlin Summit.
The London-based daily added Merkel and Macron told the WB leaders “to get their houses in order first.” “The EU has long held out the possibility of bringing western Balkan countries into the bloc to foster economic progress and improve broader regional stability,” the FT said. 30.04.2019. Adi Cerimagic, a Berlin-based analyst with the European Stability Initiative and an author of a recent report on the region told the FT that “there is