EU High Representative Federica Mogherini personally reports to the EU member states on the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at the meetings of the Council of Ministers of the Union, and her team on information about the course of the dialogue gives to the representatives of EU member states and within the various working groups of the EU Council, said Mogherini’s spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic.
Serbian media reported that several EU member states seek to be directly involved in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue because they were dissatisfied with the lack of information especially about the drafting of a legally binding agreement on the normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
Maja Kocijancic stressed for the Beta agency that the European External Action Service (EEAS), whose head is Federica Mogherini, does not comment on the writing of the media. She underlined that “the services of good will in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue are provided by the High Representative of Federica Mogherini”.
EEAS sources did not want to answer whether they have a confirmation that the United States had submitted a proposal with four key principles for a legally binding Belgrade-Pristina agreement.
EU sources told Beta that at the EU Summit in June, a debate will be held on the Union’s further strategy regarding the prospects of Western Balkan countries joining the European Union. Also because of the resistance of political forces and the public in several countries of the Union, for now, there are different views on whether this complex and long process should be referred to as “entry into membership”.
France, Germany, the Netherlands and some other members believe that they must first wait with the reorganization of the Union itself, especially after the populist forces in Italy came into power, to see how the euro zone will be strengthened, and only then to be seen how and in what way to “join or include” and some countries from the Western Balkans, if they individually meet all the requirements of the EU.
