European Union leaders expressed determination to “strengthen and intensify” their ties to the Western Balkans, but they dampened any hopes of a quick move to allow any new countries into the bloc.
“The EU reaffirms its unequivocal support for the European perspective of the Western Balkans,” it said in a joint declaration on May 17 after a summit in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.
The declaration said the EU was “determined to strengthen and intensify its engagement at all levels” and vowed to “substantially” enhance “connectivity in all its dimensions: transport, energy, digital, economic, and human.”
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