The 2023 Western Balkans Summit in Tirana, Albania was the tenth annual summit of the Berlin Process, the European Union initiative for the integration of the Western Balkans into the Union. It was the first of the Berlin Process summits to be held in a Western Balkan state.
The renovated Pyramid of Tirana was inaugurated as part of the official programme of the summit.
A follow up meeting took place in Brussels on 13 December 2023.
Attendance
Country Represented by Title Albania Edi Rama Prime Minister Austria Alexander Schallenberg Minister for Foreign Affairs Bosnia and Herzegovina Borjana Krišto Chairwoman of Council Bulgaria Nikolai Denkov Prime Minister Croatia Andrej Plenković Prime Minister European Union Charles Michel President Ursula von der Leyen President Olivér Várhelyi Commissioner Artur Lorkowski Director of Secretariat Germany Olaf Scholz Chancellor Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis Prime Minister France Emmanuel Macron President Italy Antonio Tajani Deputy Prime Minister Kosovo Albin Kurti Prime Minister Montenegro Dritan Abazović Prime Minister Netherlands Mark Rutte Prime Minister North Macedonia Dimitar Kovačevski Prime Minister Serbia Ana Brnabić Prime Minister Slovenia Nataša Pirc Musar President Spain Pedro Sánchez Prime Minister
See also Berlin Process Enlargement of the European Union Potential enlargement of the European Union
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