A new approach to joining the European Union is needed, according to both the Prime Minister of Albania and President of Serbia, who bemoaned the length of time the process is taking for their countries.
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00:00 A new approach to European Union enlargement. It`s what the prime minister of Albania, Eddie
00:06 Rama says is needed as his country grows tired of the long process towards joining the 27-member
00:12 bloc.
00:15 We should be realistic and we should not look at the finger while the finger shows the moon
00:24 and believe that this Europe of 27 that is having a lot of trouble to have a compact
00:35 decision making, to have a strategic thinking and planning can be enlarged with 33 or 35
00:43 or 37 soon. So, instead of the nothing or all for us, the non-EU members, new approach
00:53 should be found and new alternatives should be considered.
01:01 Eddie Rama`s comments come as 45 heads of state and government from across the continent
01:05 gather at the so-called European political community to discuss, among other things,
01:10 EU enlargement. But he isn`t the only leader from the Western Balkans calling for a new
01:15 approach.
01:17 With many countries in the region having waited years now to join the bloc, Serbia`s president
01:22 Aleksandar Vucic tells Euronews that something has to change.
01:26 It doesn`t matter what, because there were some - during different conversations, there
01:33 were some new ideas. Whether we can get first green lanes, then economic market, unique
01:39 economic market, whatever it is, we need to move. We need to move ourselves, otherwise
01:45 we`ll feel bigger fatigue than within European member states.
01:50 State countries, including Albania, Serbia and Ukraine are currently EU candidate countries,
01:55 meaning they could join the bloc in the near future.
01:59 But with no clear timeline set and divisions within the EU stark, a new approach to European
02:04 Union membership could very well appear.
02:06 Thank you.
02:10 you