Bulgaria Pushes for Clearer EU Membership Path for Western Balkans
- Bulgaria wants membership path for Western Balkans after wars
- Minister says more guidance needed for likes of Serbia, Kosovo
Sofia, Bulgaria.
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The European Union’s poorest member is seeking to offer a clearer path toward membership for the western Balkans to prevent a return to the instability that ravaged the continent’s most volatile region two decades ago.
Bulgaria, which will assume the EU’s six-month rotating presidency in January, is pushing for the world’s biggest trading bloc to offer more concrete guidance on how Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina can join its ranks, Liliana Pavlova, Bulgaria’s minister in charge of the EU presidency, said last week.