Jean-Claude Juncker has said that blocking the Balkans is 'a grave historic mistake'
the bleariest-eyed of early-morning travellers can fail to notice the memorial at Sarajevo airport. It recalls eight French soldiers who died during the Bosnian war. When the war ended, in 1995, the American-designed peace deal was signed in Paris. Ever since then, European policy has been clear: to avoid the mistakes of the past, the western Balkan states must be anchored in thecolleagues, Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, seemed to kick the legs out from under that policy.
The consequences of the change in policy have already been nasty. North Macedonia’s government collapsed following the veto. An election could see the return of nationalists who opposed the deal with Greece over the new name; the new prime minister of Greece never liked it. Is Mr Macron a Balkan-blocker because he does not want to give ammunition to France’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim far right? Probably not, says Loïc Trégourès, a Balkan specialist at Lille’s Catholic University. France has no special political interest in the region, he says, but it has become collateral damage in Mr Macron’s disputes with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, who has rebuffed his ideas ofreform.
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