TIRANA, October 16 – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared on Monday that the recent escalations in the north of Kosovo have proved how important the cooperation between the Western Balkans and the European Union is.
The Chancellor made this statement in his speech at the Berlin Process summit in Tirana. “We must finally complete the implementation of the agreements that have been reached (between Kosovo and Serbia) through the normalization dialogue led by the EU,” he said.
According to him, the Berlin process is a forum for cooperation, when cooperation is needed and required more than ever now that Russia’s war against Ukraine has once again shown how important it is that we speak in a single European voice.
The Chancellor said that the multiple crises in the region in the Western Balkans have emphasized the urgent need to work more together and overcome antagonisms.
Germany’s Scholz is the successor of former Chancellor Angela Merkel who launched the Berlin Process in 2014. /argumentum.al