Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi hoped, on Tuesday 14 February in a question-and-answer session in the European Parliament, that one of the Western Balkan countries would be ready to join the EU at the end of the Commission’s current mandate, i.e. at the end of 2024.
“We should see at least one country ready to join by the end of the mandate”, he stressed, saying that every effort should be made to ensure that this happened. “Since 2019, the issue is again a priority for...