Leaders of the Western Balkans will gather tomorrow for the 10th Jubilee summit of the Berlin Process, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz will host them in the German capital.
In the framework of the summit, two working meetings and a working lunch will be held, where participants will discuss regional cooperation and the common regional market, as well as the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans and the future of the Berlin Process.
At the same table will be the leaders of the regions – Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, while the summit will be attended by the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
On the eve of the meeting, Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic has admitted that he fears a new provocation in Kosovo against Serbs tomorrow, as the summit is taking place in Berlin.
“I am afraid that on Monday you will see a new provocation in Pristina, because people who are veterans of such formats and events have told me that every time a plenary meeting has been held something bad has happened to us in Kosovo on its part. Pristina I hope it does not happen, but I am worried that Albin Kurti will do something that morning,” Vucevic said.
He stressed that the Berlin Process is important for regional stability, because it has brought results that are not to be underestimated, with increasing intensity.
In anticipation of the Berlin Process summit, the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, stressed the necessity of regional cooperation, stressing the need to implement the agreement on free movement between Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which contributes to the citizens of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Otherwise, Kurti is already in Germany, where together with the minister of Foreign Affairs, Donika Gervala, practically in the function of the party leader, are talking with the Kosovar diaspora, in the first place about the upcoming elections in Kosovo.
One of the main topics of the meeting in Berlin will be Cefta and because of the nine new agreements adopted, but above all because after a year and a half, Kosovo, although partially, lifted the ban on imports of Serbian goods, after warnings that it would be excluded from that agreement.
It is planned that the participants will sign a joint statement regarding the action plan for the common regional market, as well as an agreement on mobility “access to studies”.
In addition, a meeting of the youth and Civil Society Forum will be held, which was already convened this week in Berlin.
After that, around 14:00 a joint press conference is scheduled between Chancellor Scholz and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
The Berlin Process was established in 2014 as a format for regional cooperation in the Western Balkans and support for the approach to the European Union.
The summit is being held again this year in Berlin, at the Chancellor’s headquarters, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the process initiated by the former head of the German government, Angela Merkel.
