Will the EU drop the Balkans?
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports today that former German President von Weizsäcker and former Prime Ministers Amato of Italy, Dehaene of Belgium, and Bildt of Sweden sent an open letter to EU leaders not to neglect the Balkans following the French and Dutch referenda on the EU constitution. Twenty million people in the Balkans were expecting a clear message “not in ambiguous Brusselese but in clear language,” according to the letter. It continued that it would be hard to see how the EU could protect its citizens from global threats if it couldn’t take care of a small part of its own continent.
True words likely to get drowned out by the more immediate quarrels of the EU leaders.
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T K Vogel | 9:53 am |
