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For the EU, the Western Balkans always a geopolitical competition issue

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By Alba Cela Jan Claude Juncker has come a long way in these few years from the first time he took over the Commission and delivered a Bush-patterned ‘read my lips- no more enlargement’ statement. In the latest EU State of the Union Address he spoke just a few words about the Western Balkans and their perspective but they hit home: “Europe can export stability, as we have done with the successive enlargements of our Union. For me, these are and will remain success stories – for we were able to reconcile Europe’s history and geography. But there is more…

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