"Westbalkanstaaten können nur gemeinsam der EU beitreten"

Die sechs Westbalkanstaaten haben auf einem Gipfel in Berlin Vereinbarungen unterzeichnet, die sie der EU-Mitgliedschaft näher bringen sollen.

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00:00German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen welcomed the

00:10six West Balkan states to Berlin on Monday as part of the 10-year Berlin Process Summit.

00:16The Berlin Process aims to bring countries such as Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia

00:21and Herzegovina, Albania and North Macedonia together to sign agreements to enable them

00:26to become full EU member states.

00:29Five out of six agreements were signed and restrictions on export from Serbia to Kosovo

00:34were lifted.

00:36Scholz underlined that the states could only join together despite some of them likely

00:40to meet conditions quicker than the others.

00:42He encouraged the states to help each other out.

00:46Montenegro is seen as the first promising country to be integrated to Europe despite

00:50the process beginning more than 20 years ago.

00:54Whilst Montenegro expects to meet all the requirements before 2028, Scholz said he hopes

00:59the whole process would be complete before 2030.

01:03But with Ukraine and Moldova's memberships to the EU being accelerated since Russia's

01:07full-scale invasion in Ukraine, it's likely to leave a sour taste in the mouth of the

01:12six Balkan states.

01:14Liv Stroud in Berlin for euronews.