Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron's speech at the Sorbonne in Paris this week, like the one on the Pnyx, was courageous, remarkably visionary but also incredibly tactical. The question now is whether he is able to rally not only Germany but also the rest of Europe behind his ambitious agenda.

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker believe the EU should open its doors to new Balkan members from by 2025.

This is the conclusion of an internal analysis that Juncker submitted to an unofficial EU summit in Tallinn last night, while referring to Serbia and Montenegro, Beta reported on Friday.

"For Poland and for the Baltic States, the Russian threat exists! NATO gives security." This was stated by Prime Minister Theresa May during a meeting with British soldiers in the Estonian military base Tapa, the Russian electronic edition Nation-news reports. According to the British Prime Minister, NATO troops are in Estonia to counter the Russian threat, FOCUS News Agency adds.

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker believe the EU should open its doors to new Balkan members from by 2025.

This is the conclusion of an internal analysis that Juncker submitted to an unofficial EU summit in Tallinn last night, while referring to Serbia and Montenegro, Beta reported on Friday.

Two opinion polls in the past four days show a slight rise in the rating of French President Emmanuel Macron, which had collapsed after his election in May, the DPA reported.

Twelve terror plots have been thwarted in France since the start of the year, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said Tuesday, warning that the threat remains "strong".

Among the previously unpublicized cases was a planned attack, foiled in May, on an air force training school in the southern town of Salon-de-Provence, the minister said, without giving details.

Emmanuel Macron's initiative for a European revival expresses the French president's need to make his mark early as a reformer not only in his country but in the rest of the European Union as well. It is also part of a long line of French proposals to establish peace on the continent through the cooperation of its states.

ZAGUBICA - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Monday he still "would not bet" on Kosovo becoming a UN member state.

"I am almost certain a membership is not going to happen," Vucic told reporters in Zagubica, eastern Serbia, where he attended the opening of a reconstructed road.

Vucic: Europe's fate depends on Merkel, Macron

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced plans on Sept. 25 to pour 57 billion euros ($67.8 billion) into modernizing France's sluggish economy, with a hefty chunk set aside for making it more environmentally-friendly.

Serbia's European integration depends on the success of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emanuel Macron, says Aleksandar Vucic.