The European Union has minimised the impact China has on the Balkans, the bloc’s Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn has said on Tuesday, adding he is worried about the level of loans for infrastructural projects those countries take from Beijing, the Beta news agency reported.

In an interview with Financial Times, Hahn said such loans increased the risk for those countries in the long run.

According to him, the EU would have been a more fair partner.

Criticism of ‘Frankenstein’ plan despite change in tone by EU and US

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo will meet in Brussels on Friday to explore a possible peace deal including a land-swap proposal that has triggered growing opposition to a new redrawing of frontiers in the Balkans.

The Western Balkans Summit in London this week achieved little in advancing the region's EU prospects, the Financial Times writes.

“I’m obsessed with Kosovo,” Serbian President Aleksnadar Vucic told the Financial Times adding that everything he has done to date depends on a solution to the Kosovo problem.

 “Without resolving that problem everything I have achieved so far won’t be sustainable. The first crisis will kill us,” he said.