Skopje, 1 July 2025
Thank you very much for attending this meeting in Skopje!
This is the fourth meeting of the European Union Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. This meeting was supposed to be held in March, but was postponed due to the tragedy in Kocani, Veles, and I would like to take this opportunity to once again express my sincere condolences to the families of the victims.
On this occasion, we had a preliminary dinner last night where we discussed the Growth Plan, but for me it is always a pleasure to come to Skopje, especially now that we have joint border control points: Han i Elezit – Bllac, which became operational on April 12, and Glloboçicë-Jazhincë, which became operational this year, on May 28.
All of these are the result of the joint agreements that we made with the Miskovski Government on November 18 last year in Pristina, at the joint meeting of our two governments.
It is always a pleasure to come to Skopje, to this country, which is the capital of a NATO member state, but also of a country that, together with all the other countries of the Western Balkans, aspires to join the European Union.
Thank you very much!
