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After Years Of Delay, North Macedonia, Albania Get OK To Begin EU Accession Talks

 

European Union ministers say they have approved beginning membership talks with North Macedonia and Albania, with a top German official calling it "good news in these gloomy times."

 

"Congrats to Tirana+Skopje, it's well deserved," Michael Roth, Germany’s state secretary for European affairs, wrote on Twitter on March 24, after the agreement was reached during a videoconference.

 

The agreement must still be confirmed and approved in written form. That is expected to happen on March 25, although conditions posed by the coronavirus could delay that move.

 

No date has been set for accession talks to actually begin, but diplomats told RFE/RL that they will not start until the autumn at the earliest.

 

The decision to start the talks with the two Western Balkan countries has been long delayed and has caused a rift among EU members.

 

France, with support from the Netherlands and Denmark, urged a slower approach, arguing that the countries needed to make further reforms to reach EU governmental, economic, and rule-of-law standards.

 

https://www.rferl.org/a/after-years-of-delay-north-macedonia-albania-get-ok-to-begin-eu-accession-talks/30507053.html