EU needs to lower Bosnia’s standards for candidate status

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Today, at the Prespa Dialogue Discussion board in Ohrid, Croatian President Zoran Milanovic claimed that the European Union must lower the benchmarks for the international locations of the Western Balkans in get for them to sign up for it a lot more easily.

Milanovic asked the nations around the world that have the best typical in the EU to “slightly decrease their requirements, not to sign everlasting violations”.

The result of safety issues

Speaking about the position of Ukraine when it comes to approving the prospect status for the country’s entry into the EU, Milanovic also referred to BiH.

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–  I am for that, but we have to not ignore about BiH. What prevents us from carrying out the very same for BiH. Constant procrastination is destroying that place – explained the Croatian president.

Milanovic is of the viewpoint that some countries, these as Germany, are blocking the accession of the Western Balkan nations around the world to the EU.

–  These are just a couple of international locations that constantly have some of their pretty substantial requirements, which I appreciate. Having said that, this is a really major predicament in which the states do not see any perspective – Milanović pointed out.

The Croatian president believes that the gradual enlargement of the EU is the final result of safety concerns and that such sights do not stem from economic good reasons.

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As one particular of the security causes, he pointed out the reality that Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.

He talked about BiH with the Turkish management

–  I are not able to envision for numerous political, social, and historic good reasons that Serbia recognizes Kosovo. Until finally that is accomplished, the concern will not be resolved – Milanovic concluded.

He verified that he experienced discussed BiH with Turkish International Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, noting that the Turkish formal may perhaps not know anything, “but he is Aristotle in contrast to others.”

Milanovic thinks that Croatia should block Finland and Sweden’s software for NATO membership until the election law in BiH is adjusted, but that Croatia and Turkey do not have the similar position on the problem of blocking people countries’ NATO membership mainly because “Turkey is exclusively from these states”, and the Croatian president sees no other way to resolve the issue of the election legislation in BiH.

The 2nd Prespa Forum Dialogue is entitled “Shaping the Upcoming of the Western Balkans in a Contemporary European Security Architecture”. The forum is attended by the foreign ministers of Turkey, Greece, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland, Slovakia, the primary ministers of Northern Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro, and European Council President Charles Michel and Oliver Varhelyi, European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement.

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