On 13 november 2019 Donald Tusk speeched in Bruges and gave his view on the European Union. At that occasion he criticized the objection of the French President Macron to the start of negociations with some Balkan states. Tusk commented :
” There wil be no sovereign Europe without stable Balkans integrated with the rest of the continent, and you don’t need to be a historian to understand this.”
It is difficult not to agree with Tusk on this but there are two big “but’s” : (1) The Balkans are NOT stable ; (2) They will not become stable by including them into the European Union.
To stabilize the Balkans border corrections are unavoidable. At best these corrections will be performed in a peaceful way via negotiations.
Only when the borders are updated the Balkans might be stabilized and fit for integration in the European union. The sequence of the events is of crucial importance.
