Berlin Process

TRIESTE - Brussels wants the Western Balkan countries to become EU member states, one of the key reasons being to keep young people in their countries, EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said in Trieste Wednesday.

Speaking at a Western Balkans Six Summit, held as part of the Berlin Process, Hahn said this would reduce tensions from the past.

TRIESTE - Integration is key to the Berlin Process and all obstacles on that path, such as customs barriers, should be removed, Serbian Finance Minister Dusan Vujovic said at a business forum held as part of the Western Balkans Six Summit in Trieste.

BELGRADE/TRIESTE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn in Trieste on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's Western Balkans summit in the Italian city.

The consequences of the strike in Fiat cpuld be detrimental to Serbia and lead to the withdrawal of foreign investors from our country, says FM Ivica Dacic.

The Trieste Summit was an important and successful event that confirmed the Western Balkans' EU integration perspective, the EU has announced.

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on Tuesday arrived in Trieste, Italy, for the Western Balkans Summit, held within the Berlin Process.

The cameras captured Rama's "somewhat relaxed" fashion style, that combined a suit, a tie, and a pair of sneakers.

The European Union will finance the construction of the Corridor 8 railway line, which should connect the Black Sea with the Adriatic Sea and pass through the territory of the Republic of Macedonia. This is what EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn told Deutsche Welle.

Wednesday's summit in the Italian city of Trieste is expected to focus on financial programmes, a customs union and common market, but also the so-called 'Marshall Plan for the Balkans' - a German scheme to use EU funds to finance large-scale infrastructure projects in the region.

MINSK - Serbia expects to see additional funds approved at the upcoming Trieste summit for priority projects, Serbia's Acting PM and FM Ivica Dacic said at a meeting of FMs of Central European Initiative (CEI) member states in Minsk on Thursday.

The Berlin Process "is not and must not be a substitute for the process of European integration for Serbia, or for other EU candidates in the region."

Minister without portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic said this on Wednesday addressing the regional conference "Austria Connect 2017," according to the remarks published by the Serbian government.