Von der Leyen visiting Skopje for conferences with Siljanovska Davkova and Mickoski

Skopje/Brussels – The President of the European Fee, Ursula von der Leyen, will keep in Skopje as we speak as a part of her four-day tour of the six Western Balkan international locations. In keeping with bulletins, throughout her go to to North Macedonia, Von der Leyen will meet with President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova and Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski.

In anticipation of Von der Leyen’s go to to the area, the European Fee yesterday authorised the reform agendas of North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro, associated to the Western Balkan Progress Plan, which commit them to socio-economic and elementary reforms to be carried out within the interval from 2024 to 2027 to stimulate development and connectivity with the EU. The approval of the reform agendas was a key step to allow the disbursement of funds inside the framework of the Western Balkans Reform and Progress Mechanism, with a complete worth of six billion euros.

As said yesterday by the deputy chief spokesperson of the EC, Arianna Podesta, the Progress Plan and the progress of the European path of the Western Balkan international locations would be the major matters of Von der Leyen’s conferences along with her hosts in the course of the tour of the area.

– Enlargement is a key precedence for the Fee, and we’ve reiterated this prior to now years, which we proved in the course of the first mandate, and we will definitely proceed to think about it a precedence within the second mandate. That is one thing that the President herself (Von der Leyen) introduced, added Podesta.

Von der Leyen will journey to Skopje from Tirana, the place she is going to meet with the President of Albania, Bajram Begaj, this morning. She began her Balkan tour from Tirana, the place yesterday she met with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and spoke on the ceremony marking the beginning of the tutorial yr on the European Faculty of Tirana. After the assembly with Rama, Von der Leyen introduced that the European Fee will publish the reviews on the progress of the candidate international locations for EU membership subsequent week.

Von der Leyen from Skopje will depart for the Bosnian city of Jablanica this afternoon, the place she is going to go to areas just lately affected by floods. Tomorrow morning, she is going to meet with the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, in addition to with the Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers, Borjana Krišto, after which she is going to depart for Belgrade to satisfy with the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Milosh Vučević. On Saturday, Von der Leyen will keep in Pristina, the place she is going to meet with the President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti, after which she is going to journey to Podgorica for conferences with Montenegrin State Chief Jakov Milatović and Prime Minister Milojko Spajić. (October 24)