TIRANA, November 20/ATA/-Summit between the leaders of EU and the Western Balkan countries which will be organised by Croatia in May 2020 will result in conclusions determining political and institutional relations for the next decade, stated Prime Minister of Croatia Andrej Plenković at the opening of European People’s Party (EPP) Congress in Zagreb today.
Speaking at a press conference with the outgoing EPP president Joseph Daul and EPP Secretary General Antonio Lopez-Isturiz, Plenković also stated that Croatia has proposed two resolutions for the Congress, with the first one concerning enlargement, especially in the context of recent failure to open negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania.
Commenting on the French proposal to reform the negotiating process, Plenković pointed out that the current negotiating methodology already provides the opportunities to suspend negotiating chapters and open the ones that are provisionally closed, which solves the concern of “reversibility”.
Croatia will hold its first Presidency over the Council of the European Union from January to June 2020, and the EU-Western Balkans Summit in May was described by the Prime Minister as one of the most important points for the visibility of his country’s Presidency.//a.i/
