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| David Sassoli |
At the opening of the EU leaders' summit in Brussels today, Sassoli stated that the European Parliament supports the immediate opening of accession negotiations and that it would be difficult to explain why this has been delayed.
“We support the immediate opening of accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. The European Commission is in favor of this and we will find it difficult to explain to the people of those countries of why we are delaying it," said Sassoli among other things.
He stressed that it is the EU's duty to respond to these countries' efforts.
"When we call on neighboring countries to make an extra effort to change and they do so, it is our duty to match that effort," the EP President said.