Mogherini: New Balkan strategy can be EU ‘turning point’

''A new strategy to bring Western Balkan countries into the European Union can be a turning point in the history of the bloc, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday.
Speaking at the launch of the European Commission plan in Strasbourg, Mogherini said progress toward membership for six Western Balkan countries — Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia — could in the coming months become “irreversible and tangible for all.”
“The months ahead will be intense, will be ambitious, will be — hopefully — months of a turning point that will be remembered in the history, I believe, of the European Union,” Mogherini said.
“Let’s make it happen,” she said. “Let’s bring the Western Balkans inside the European Union not in a faraway future but in our generation.”
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