EU leaders refuse to set a timeline for granting membership to Western Balkan nations despite reassurances
The EU's push for enlargement — once a key policy for the bloc — has ground to a halt in recent years.
But it also said that the EU had to first "deepen its own development, ensuring its capacity to integrate new members". But she still insisted the EU had an "immense geostrategic interest" in letting the Western Balkans in eventually.
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