In a joint declaration on Thursday 17 May, supported by Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia, the European leaders underlined their unequivocal support for the European perspective of the Western Balkans, recalling the Thessaloniki summit of 2003.
"The region is set. It is subject to great destabilisation, pressure, and could, through history, through pressure, turn towards Russia and Turkey, and that would be bad for the...