Fuele: Balkans will not be left by wayside

Newly elected EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that the Western Balkans will not be left out of the European enlargement plans.

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Saturday, 28.11.2009.

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Newly elected EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that the Western Balkans will not be left out of the European enlargement plans. Fuele, who was the Czech Republic’s European affairs minister, said that it is important to continue the negotiations that have already started, but also added that the countries of the Western Balkans would not be left by the wayside as far as European enlargement plans are concerned. Fuele: Balkans will not be left by wayside He said that he will be focusing most of his attention and visits on the Western Balkans, along with Croatia and Turkey, adding that he has been to the Balkans many times before. “I was in Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. As an ambassador to NATO mostly, but also in visits as the deputy defense minister, as well as privately,” Fuele said. He said that a great majority of European politicians consider enlargement to be one of the EU’s greatest successes. “The started negotiations need to continue, but I think that now in not the moment for predicting what country will be entering the EU next,” he said. Stefan Fuele

Fuele: Balkans will not be left by wayside

He said that he will be focusing most of his attention and visits on the Western Balkans, along with Croatia and Turkey, adding that he has been to the Balkans many times before.

“I was in Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. As an ambassador to NATO mostly, but also in visits as the deputy defense minister, as well as privately,” Fuele said.

He said that a great majority of European politicians consider enlargement to be one of the EU’s greatest successes.

“The started negotiations need to continue, but I think that now in not the moment for predicting what country will be entering the EU next,” he said.

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