EU Aims for 2025 Balkans Expansion
Officials are wary of Chinese and Saudi Arabian investments in the region, and Russia’s resurgence
After years of considering the European Union’s external borders set, Brussels is proposing to add the continent’s poorest countries to check the influence of Russia, China and Turkey in the Balkans.
Bringing the remaining countries around the former Yugoslavia into the EU would complete what some consider the bloc’s final expansion, but it could be a long and difficult path.
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