The region of the Western Balkans has waited for EU membership for too long and the process now needs to speed up, said René Troccaz, Special Envoy for the Western Balkans of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic. He also said that this process should run in parallel with the internal EU reforms, which are currently ongoing.
Troccaz spoke to European Western Balkans during the Belgrade Security Conference 2024, which is taking place this week.
“I think we have to do both processes in parallel. We have to enlarge, we wish to enlarge the European Union to the Western Balkans and of course to Ukraine and Moldova. But in parallel to that, because we have the perspective of increasing the number of member states, we have to reform ourselves”, Troccaz said.
