EU fails to agree on talks with Albania, North Macedonia

European Union ministers failed on Tuesday to reach a consensus on whether to open membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia, amid stiff opposition to the move from France.
"It was not a moment of glory for Europe," Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn told reporters in Luxembourg after taking part in a meeting of European affairs ministers.
Apologizing to the citizens of the two Balkans hopefuls, Hahn said that "the overwhelming majority" of EU member countries supported the European Commission's recommendation to start talks with Albania and North Macedonia.
He didn't name the countries that oppose the move, but Finnish European affairs minister Tytti Tuppurainen, who was chairing the talks because her country holds the EU's rotating presidency, noted that there was "one member state particularly against."
"Unfortunately today the council was not...