Geographically located in Europe and surrounded by EU Member States, the six Western Balkan (WB) countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia – are strategic partners of the EU, which, since the 2003 EU-Western Balkans Summit in Thessaloniki, have been promised a path towards their 'European future'.
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The Western Balkans, a term used to refer to six countries in south-eastern Europe that are covered by EU enlargement policy (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Serbia) have emerged as a frontline in Russia's geopolitical confrontation with the West.