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EU without date for accession talks with Tirana and Skopje

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15. okt. 2019. 23:20
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The European Foreign Ministers failed to agree in Luxembourg on Tuesday when to start the accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia, despite pledges that the whole of the Western Balkans should become the bloc's members, the Beta news agency reported.

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The final verdict is expected at the meeting of the presidents or prime ministers of the EU member states in Brussels on Thursday.

Tytti Tuppurainen, the Foreign Minister of Finland, the EU presiding country, said she was sorry that the deal was not reached.

France and Netherlands asked Tirana and Skopje to meet almost all conditions, while the majority of the ministers was in favour of specifying the date for opening the talks.

Albania and North Macedonia have been waiting for the start of the EU negotiations for years, and Skopje was promised to get the date in the summer of 2019, after ending the 27-year-long name dispute with Athens.

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