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One of the points discussed by the Serbia-Kosovo agreement in Washington was Kosovo's participation in the Balkan Mini-Schengen. What does this initiative mean for regional cooperation? An attempt to understand. When Serbia, Albania and North Macedonia, in October 2019, presented their initiative, called "Mini-Schengen", the EU had just postponed the opening of accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. With this idea, the three states of the Western Balkans aim to create a kind of "small EU" in South-Eastern Europe: an area where people, services, goods and capital can move freely. Implementation of the initiative, also known as the "Balkan Schengen", is scheduled to begin in 2021.
Two Western Balkan Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data countries, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are undecided to join the initiative. According to the Washington Agreement (4.9.2020), now Kosovo will also enter there.. At the request of the US Read also: The USA and the EU call for the completion of the selection process of the Chief Prosecutor in Kosovo The Israel-Hamas war/ The US military drops aid into Gaza from the air The youngest state of Europe had until that moment strictly refused participation in the initiative with the argument that it gives too much advantage to Serbia, as the largest producer of goods in the region. After his return from Washington, Kosovo's Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti told reporters that Kosovo's participation was made at the request of the US. "We will make sure that the state interests of the Republic of Kosovo are not violated at any time", promised Hoti.
The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, welcomed the Washington agreement: "Better late than never, also thanks to our friend America," Rama wrote on Twitter. But what exactly the US aims to do with the support of the "Mini-Schengen" initiative, this is unclear. The initiative for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans has. The fact that this cooperation, which is important for rapprochement with the EU, is being supported by the US is to be welcomed, said Peter Beyer, a Christian Democrat member of the German Parliament and the German Government's Charge d'Affaires for Transatlantic Relations. Beyer, who is also the rapporteur for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue in the Bundestag and the Council of Europe, recalls that "this was initially initiated years ago by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and has been pursued and intensified with considerable success in the future".
Two Western Balkan Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data countries, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, are undecided to join the initiative. According to the Washington Agreement (4.9.2020), now Kosovo will also enter there.. At the request of the US Read also: The USA and the EU call for the completion of the selection process of the Chief Prosecutor in Kosovo The Israel-Hamas war/ The US military drops aid into Gaza from the air The youngest state of Europe had until that moment strictly refused participation in the initiative with the argument that it gives too much advantage to Serbia, as the largest producer of goods in the region. After his return from Washington, Kosovo's Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti told reporters that Kosovo's participation was made at the request of the US. "We will make sure that the state interests of the Republic of Kosovo are not violated at any time", promised Hoti.
The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, welcomed the Washington agreement: "Better late than never, also thanks to our friend America," Rama wrote on Twitter. But what exactly the US aims to do with the support of the "Mini-Schengen" initiative, this is unclear. The initiative for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans has. The fact that this cooperation, which is important for rapprochement with the EU, is being supported by the US is to be welcomed, said Peter Beyer, a Christian Democrat member of the German Parliament and the German Government's Charge d'Affaires for Transatlantic Relations. Beyer, who is also the rapporteur for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue in the Bundestag and the Council of Europe, recalls that "this was initially initiated years ago by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and has been pursued and intensified with considerable success in the future".