Fears of "Greater Albania" under guise of "Balkan Benelux"

Any form of regional cooperation in the West Balkans "must not exclude any country, and must serve the key goal of accession to the European Union".

Izvor: Beta

Wednesday, 25.07.2012.

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BRUSSELS Any form of regional cooperation in the West Balkans "must not exclude any country, and must serve the key goal of accession to the European Union". This was heard on Tuesday in Brussels from European Commissioner Stefan Fule and visiting Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, Beta news agency is reporting. Fears of "Greater Albania" under guise of "Balkan Benelux" Fule and Poposki were responding to a question during their news conference on their take on Skopje's sharp reaction to an idea about creating a "Balkan Benelux," - envisaged to encompass "Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro". The Skopje printed media and by the World Macedonian Congress said that this was an attempt to create a "Greater Albania". The "Balkan Benelux" idea was read as an attempt to create, through closer political and economic cooperation, a framework in which the Albanian population would be the overwhelming ethnic majority. A member of the Macedonian government, Albanian by ethnicity, voiced support for the concept in the presence of Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, at a meeting in Prisstina. The response from the cabinet in Skopje was strong protest. In Brussels, Poposki reiterated that Macedonia's goal was "for the entire region to become part of the European Union, and that is the key driving force in everything we do and our foreign policy". Beta

Fears of "Greater Albania" under guise of "Balkan Benelux"

Fule and Poposki were responding to a question during their news conference on their take on Skopje's sharp reaction to an idea about creating a "Balkan Benelux," - envisaged to encompass "Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and Montenegro".

The Skopje printed media and by the World Macedonian Congress said that this was an attempt to create a "Greater Albania".

The "Balkan Benelux" idea was read as an attempt to create, through closer political and economic cooperation, a framework in which the Albanian population would be the overwhelming ethnic majority. A member of the Macedonian government, Albanian by ethnicity, voiced support for the concept in the presence of Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, at a meeting in Prišstina.

The response from the cabinet in Skopje was strong protest. In Brussels, Poposki reiterated that Macedonia's goal was "for the entire region to become part of the European Union, and that is the key driving force in everything we do and our foreign policy".

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