On Wednesday 4 April, the Party of European Socialists (PES) gave its support to the accession of the Western Balkans to EU.
"We expect concrete decisions in support of the EU accession process of the Western Balkans in the following months", Knut Fleckenstein, the S&D spokesperson for foreign affairs, stated at a PES conference. In Fleckenstein's view, the Western Balkans summit in Sofia on 17 May, the Berlin Process summit in London and the June EU Council need to reconfirm"the...