Johannes Hahn

EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn is on Wednesday visiting Belgrade and will meet separately with President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.

Media will be addressed after both meetings.

Greece has "strongly criticized" EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn for using Macedonia's constitutional name, that Athens does not recognize, Beta is reporting.

BRUSSELS - European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn will be on an official visit to Serbia on February 7-8, the European Commission announced on Friday.

Hahn will be in Belgrade just a day after the publication of the European Commission's new enlargement strategy for the Western Balkans and then travel to Podgorica.

DAVOS - Meeting with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn in Davos on Thursday, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic expressed the hope the EU's enlargement strategy would make the positive, encouraging messages from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker more concrete and have a major impact on regional peace and stability.

EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn says 2025 is "a realistic goal for a new wave of (EU) enlargement.)

Serbia and Montenegro have currently "progressed the farthest" toward that goal - but that does not mean that the two countries will definitely be the first to "cross the finish line," Hahn told Austria's APA agency.

"There is still much to do," he said.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn in Belgrade on Friday.

Vucic and Hahn met in Villa Bokeljka to discuss the EU integration process and Serbia's progress on that path, Tanjug learns.

Turkey will not accept a "privileged partnership" with the EU, the country's EU Minister Omer Celik has said, cited by Anadolu Agency .

"If we are offered a privileged partnership, we will not even consider it, and simply reject," Celik told news channel Haberturk on Friday.

Writing on her website, federicamogherini.net, the EU official singled out "12 special moments marking 2017 that she brings with her into the new year."

The third on the list - after "Relaunching our Union, starting with defense," and, "At work with Africa for migrants" - is "The Balkans' path towards our Union."

"It was not an easy year in the Balkans," Mogherini writes.

EU Commissionaire for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn thinks 2018 will be "a decisive year for the Western Balkans."

VIENNA - European Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn says the 2025 date for potential EU accession of some Balkan candidate countries is a realistic, but ambitious goal.

The president of the European Commission has said 2025 is a potential accession date for some candidates - that is realistic, albeit ambitious, Hahn said in an interview with Vienna-based Kurier daily.