Rama, Kurti and Vucic today in Brussels, Von der Leyen gathers at a working lunch with the leaders of the Western Balkans!

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will gather today in a working lunch in Brussels the leaders of the countries of the Western Balkans.

It is learned that Prime Minister Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandër Vucic will be present at the working lunch.

The main purpose of this meeting is to discuss the "reform and growth agendas", which almost all the countries of the Western Balkan region have submitted to the European Commission, as a precondition to receive the first payments from the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. approved by the EU in May of this year.

Von der Leyen has been engaged in the promotion of this plan, while it has been supported by the European Parliament and the member countries of the EU Council. The countries of the Western Balkans had to prepare a reform agenda, based on the preliminary recommendations of the EU troops. Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only one in the region which, for internal political reasons, has not yet done so.

On the other hand, Kosovo was among the first countries to submit its plan to the European Commission. During the presentation of this plan, the countries of the region were clearly told that if they do not carry out the reforms after one or two years, then the amount will be distributed to other countries.

Through the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans, the European Union plans to allocate around 6 billion euros to the countries of this region in the period from 2024 to 2027.