Merkel: ‘Truly united Europe’ includes Western Balkans (Politico)
Europe will only be truly united when all the countries of the Western Balkans join the EU, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday.
Merkel's remarks represented a strong restatement of Berlin's commitment to EU enlargement, an idea that is unpopular with some EU governments and many voters in Western Europe. French President Emmanuel Macron has struck a particularly skeptical note on enlargement in recent years.