Despite a nerve-racking buildup leading up to the vote and the final agreement to no one’s liking, the EU’s asylum and migration pact passed with a thin majority on certain parts of the package.
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It proposed Serbia, Croatia, and Albania being expanded to swallow up parts of neighbouring Bosnia, North Macedonia and Kosovo.
It is alleged the non-paper, an EU term for an unofficial document shared confidentially between governments or institutions, originated from the office of Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša, who refused to confirm or deny those claims to Euronews.
The idea to redraw borders along ethnic lines in direct contradiction with EU and international efforts to foster multinational states in the Western Balkans sent shockwaves throughout the region traumatised by years of war.
The controversy comes as Slovenia is due to hold the EU s rotating presidency in the second half of 2021.
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