What is awaiting Vucic in Berlin?

The interlocutors are difficult, the topics even more so, and Berlin is powerful.

Regardless of the fact that representatives of all the countries of the Western Balkans plus Slovenia and Croatia will today be there informally, and that besides German Chancellor Angela Merkel there will sit also French President Emmanuel Macron, it is clear that all eyes will be on Vucic, because the question of how Belgrade and Pristina will go on continues to be the most difficult and dominant topic, according to the Tanjug agency.
Although Berlin has announced that no binding documents are scheduled to be signed tonight, it would be naive to believe that Macron, who's house is on fire, and Merkel, at the end of her political career, called on the leaders of the Western Balkans, occupied with their own troubles, only to have dinner and exchange opinions.
Judging by the German media, Berlin from this gathering expects something after all, from Belgrade and Pristina above all.
What are the expectations of Berlin - is it just to enter into dialogue with all policymakers in the Western Balkans and exchange views or something more concrete?
This, along with the accent of the German warning of the "ad acta," i.e., shelved European perspective - if Belgrade and Pristina do not show a serious will for normalization - could be in the area of ​​political speculation, while in the zone of political reality, Germany is clearly against the idea of exchange of territories and moving of of borders, and its diplomats, precisely on this subject, are "feeling the pulse" in the region.
On the "southern wing" of the European Union (EU) and Europe, the political situation is a raw - starting with nationalism, through corruption and demonstrations, to Prishtina's...

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