Portugal Gathers Atlantic Counterweight to Eastern Europe
The informal Atlantic alliance came together in preparation for the June EU Council meeting.
The informal Atlantic alliance came together in preparation for the June EU Council meeting.
Experts describe Montenegro as being divided along pro-Russian and pro-Western lines, with a long running dispute over the status of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
“Moldova is entering a new phase, one in which security is our priority,” Moldovan PM Natalia Gavrilița said in her resignation speech.
The public recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina as an official candidate for EU membership was accompanied by a list of reforms deemed necessary by the European Commission to allow further negotiations.
Commissioner Várhelyi specifically mentioned the western Balkans as a target of EU enlargement.
The decision is above all a symbolic one, as a response to Vladimir Putin who declared only a few weeks ago that the Ukrainian state had never properly existed and had no international legitimacy.
The news has provoked anger and frustration among Georgians, who deplore the preferential treatment given to Ukraine and fear that Russia will attack them again.
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