EU doesn't plan to incorporate any more west balkan country in a long time.

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EU woos Western Balkans but is coy on membership

SOFIA (Reuters) - The European Union offered six Western Balkan countries closer ties on Thursday but said they could count on no fast-track to membership - as much because of their regional problems, as well as due to the bloc’s own fatigue.

EU leaders met their counterparts from the six - Albania, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo - at a summit, agreeing to build more energy links and work more closely on issues from countering radicalism to controlling migration.

After years of neglecting the region, the EU has been spurred into action by the growing influence of other powers there, including Russia, China and Saudi Arabia.

The region in 2015-16 also became a main route for a wave of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa heading to wealthier European nations to the north.

Many in the EU fear importing Western Balkan problems and feuds, especially at a time when the bloc is still recovering from economic and migration crises that have fueled euro-scepticism among its own voters.

The shocks of the last decade also made some EU founders question eastern expansion and Western Balkans skeptics point to problems in the region ranging from organized crime in Albania to Macedonia’s name dispute with EU state Greece.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-e...-idUSKCN1IH2ZE

At least this time EU has been not so stupid and hypocrite as many others times.

[Cristiano viejo]

Good news. For everybody. For the countries of EU and for these Balkan countries.

[Wrong]

They have no use for Western Balkans anyway. Romania & Bulgaria was the corridor EU needed to logistically access the Mediterranean, Black Sea & Turkey. No matter how many Romani EU citizens they would bring to your western countries.

(RED)

[Ülev]

WTF quotas ???

Ukraina ce Evropa = Ukraine is Europe

[Tooting Carmen]

Perhaps the EU has this time realised that the previous entry of ex-Communist countries was too hasty and destabilising.

[ЛыSSый]

nato is almost defeated now due to romania has joined in.

[Morlak]

Great news, I hope Serbia never enters EU.

[B01AB20]

Perhaps the EU has this time realised that the previous entry of ex-Communist countries was too hasty and destabilising.

It seems more a combination of factors, internal to EU and others regarding the balkan countries.

Many in the EU fear importing Western Balkan problems and feuds, especially at a time when the bloc is still recovering from economic and migration crises that have fueled euro-scepticism among its own voters.

The shocks of the last decade also made some EU founders question eastern expansion and Western Balkans skeptics point to problems in the region ranging from organized crime in Albania to Macedonia’s name dispute with EU state Greece.

[Odin]