Despite more than 5 hours of discussions, European leaders were unable, on the night of Thursday 17 to Friday 18 October, to reach a unanimous agreement on the opening of negotiations for the accession of North Macedonia and Albania to the European Union.
After 4 hours of debate, a text of conclusions was drawn up. It proposed that the Commission should work on changing the methodology of the enlargement process by early 2020, as requested by France in particular, and that a decision on...