In a visit to Albania Tuesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the leaders of six western Balkan countries gathered there to strengthen regional cooperation in their push for EU membership.
Merkel hailed the cooperation intiative, saying “the more cooperation you have, the stronger the Berlin Process will be.” The Berlin Process is a program she started in 2014 to boost regional cooperation among the western Balkan countries.
Merkel said, “The EU must keep its word and not always come up with new conditions again and again because it doesn’t have any interest — perhaps due to domestic reasons in some countries — to push forward the process of accession. That causes disappointment and I can understand that disappointment.”
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