Analyst: EU sees Vucic as politician who will deliver Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo (InSerbia)
Struggling against Euroscepticism in Western Europe, the EU is seeking to reinvent itself with expansion to the East that threatens the stability of the Balkans, analyst Igor Pshenichnikov warns.
Amid rising Euroscepticism in Western Europe, the EU is focused on eastern enlargement, but its desire to “relaunch” the European project depends on pressuring eastern European countries into making painful concessions, such as the demand on Serbia to give up sovereignty over Kosovo.
On Thursday, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told Italian newspaper La Stampa that the recent election of Emmanuel Macron as French President is a demonstration of “clear support for the European project” and of a desire to “re-launch it because they consider it [the EU] part of the solution.”