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Updated · Financial Times · May 31

EU Sends 2 Top Leaders to Montenegro Balkans Summit as Expansion Push Extends East

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Updated · Financial Times · May 31

EU Sends 2 Top Leaders to Montenegro Balkans Summit as Expansion Push Extends East

1 articles · Updated · Financial Times · May 31

António Costa will tour five Balkan capitals this week before joining Ursula von der Leyen at Friday’s EU-western Balkans summit in Tivat, Montenegro.
The trip comes as Brussels presses ahead with enlargement despite the Ukraine war, with officials signaling progress later this month on Ukraine and Moldova membership.
Costa’s itinerary—Sarajevo, Tirana, Skopje, Pristina and Belgrade—puts the western Balkans back at the center of the bloc’s broader eastern expansion drive.
Romania border tensions after a Russian drone incursion underscore the security backdrop as the EU tries to keep accession momentum alive across its eastern and southeastern neighborhood.

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