German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced support for the speedy integration with the European Union, the six countries of the Balkan Peninsula. " We would like that the accession process proceeded quickly, " she said on Thursday according to the results of the Western Balkan conference in Berlin with the participation of the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso and the heads of the governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro. As an example of the successful integration of Merkel mentioned EU member States Slovenia and Croatia, Deutsche Welle reports. With his hand Barroso also called for the accession to the EU, the Western Balkan countries. European Commission President promised them to allocate up to 2020 integration assistance in the amount of 12 billion euros, of which ? 2 billion must be invested in real regional projects. The reviews took part in the conference the head of the Council of Ministers of Albania, EDI Rama, the greatest support require such areas as energy security, infrastructure, the development of the middle class and tourism. In the last few years the enlargement process of the European Union meets the increasing internal resistance due to the acute problems that it brings " old " members of the brotherhood, including migration, a significant increase in the burden on the EU budget and social programs of individual countries. We emphasize, first, the European Commission said that until not considering the issue of EU membership for the countries of the Eastern partnership (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine).
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