{"id":6568,"date":"2024-05-23T17:30:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/eu-wants-closer-ties-to-western-balkans-but-expects-reform-dw-12-13-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:30:13","slug":"eu-wants-closer-ties-to-western-balkans-but-expects-reform-dw-12-13-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/eu-wants-closer-ties-to-western-balkans-but-expects-reform-dw-12-13-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"EU wants closer ties to Western Balkans but expects reform \u2013 DW \u2013 12\/13\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/european-union-eu\/t-17440066\">European Union<\/a> leaders met with hopeful counterparts from six Western Balkan countries in Brussels Wednesday to <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/eu-enlargement-is-the-bloc-ready-for-new-members\/a-66975546\">discuss their accession into the bloc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the EU-Western Balkans summit began, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/michel-says-eu-must-be-ready-to-admit-new-members-by-2030\/a-66654242\">European Council President Charles Michel<\/a> said, &#8222;We are expecting more reforms from them, especially in the field of rule of law, in the field of the independence of justice.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Michel emphasized &#8222;strong political determination&#8220;\u00a0by regional leaders to see such reforms through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Josep Borrell, the EU&#8217;s foreign policy chief, called the potential expansion of the bloc to include Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.dw.com\/en\/eu-wants-closer-ties-with-western-balkans-but-expects-reforms\/a-67716065\">\u0438\u0437\u0442\u043e\u0447\u043d\u0438\u043a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union leaders met with hopeful counterparts from six Western Balkan countries in Brussels Wednesday to discuss their accession into the bloc. Speaking before the EU-Western Balkans summit began, European Council President Charles Michel said, &#8222;We are expecting more reforms from them, especially in the field of rule of law, in the field of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,331],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-serbia","7":"category-serbia-bg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkansnews.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}