A few days before the Western Balkans summit, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on a visit to the region, gave her support, on Tuesday 28 September, to the holding of the first intergovernmental conferences with Albania and North Macedonia by the end of the year.
Whether it was Tirana or Skopje, Mrs von der Leyen said she felt that both countries had done what they had been asked to do. “Our goal is to start (EU accession negotiations) by the end of the...