EU states reassert membership promise to six Balkan states – Reuters

The governments of the EU’s member states on Tuesday reaffirmed their promise to allow six Balkan countries to one day join the EU.

“The Council reaffirms its commitment to enlargement, which remains a key policy of the European Union,” the bloc’s 27 European affairs ministers said in a policy statement. “The Council reiterates the EU’s unequivocal support to the European perspective of the Western Balkans,” the bloc added.

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