"The Greats" are taking over the Western Balkans: Merkel and Macron

"The Greats" want to deal with Western Balkan and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron, who weren't always agreeing towards the politics of Balkans, now want to be on the same side of the rope and they want to put the failed negotiations under EU, marks the expert for South East Europe, from the university in Graz Florian Biber in a statement to the Vienna daily "Courier" on the occasion of the conference in Berlin.

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The daily indicates that the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, blocked by taxes imposed by Pristina on Serbian products, is at the very top of the agenda.

The Vienna daily reminds that prior to the introduction of taxes, there were words about the exchange of territories as a solution to the Kosovo problem, and that high representative of EU Federica Mogherini, the EU commissioner Johannes Hahn, and Macron, promised support to that idea, which was denied by Merkel from the start.

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Critics are convinced that this opens Pandora's box in the region, states "Courier".

Germany will once again try to erase the plans to divide Kosovo, marks Biber.

Austria is not even present on the gathering in Berlin, marks "Courier", and Biber marks that the official Vienna doesn't play a major role in this case.

- Besides, Austrian foreign policy under the current rule lost its strength in the region - he considers.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)