Franc Bogovic, member of the European Parliament (EP) and Vice President of the ‘Friends of Serbia’ EP group, expressed on Monday the hope that current candidates for membership in the European Union – Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo – would all be accepted to the European family by the end of 2020.
“I believe that the future of Europe lies in its enlargement into Southeastern Europe and the Western Balkans which are now surrounded by member-states of the Union,” Bogovic said in a statement on the occasion of Europe Day.
Bogovic said that European Union emerged based on the vision of its creators, Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide De Gasperi, who suggested employing a new kind of political activity based on cooperation and integration of European states and solidarity among European nations in post-war Europe.
Ensuring lasting peace, economic development and well-being of citizens are the basic principles that still keep the people of the European Union closely connected. We want to continue to foster the basic idea of our united Europe, despite all the difficulties in reconciling differences to maintain a common European policy and tackle the very complex challenges all 28 member-states of the Union, said the MEP from Slovenia.
