President of France Emmanuel Macron’s plan to form a European political community involves sending the Western Balkans to the European Union’s bench, which, if implemented, will increase reform fatigue and lead to growing Euroscepticism in the region, according to the daily Politika’s political analyst and foreign politics editor Bosko Jaksic.
In a conversation with Pobjeda, he points out that the eventual development of such a scenario would not be good for Europe either, because that would mean exposing this part of the Old Continent to even stronger influences from Russia and China.
Asked to what extent Macron’s plan will affect the demoralization of the Western Balkan countries to work on the process of further reforms, Jaksic explains that this region, due to decades of waiting and delays, is already sufficiently demoralized.
Jaksic, however, adds that Europe still understands that, in the current situation of violated European security, it must incorporate the Western Balkans and based on that send a clear message that it will not allow to lose the region so easily and leave it to even stronger influences of Russia and China.
