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Tirana Western Balkans Summit
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Host country	Albania
Dates	16 October 2023
Cities	Tirana
Participants	European Union Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Germany Greece Kosovo France North Macedonia Montenegro Serbia
Chair	Edi Rama
Follows	2022 Western Balkans Summit, Berlin
Key points
Future enlargement of the European Union

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.

A follow up meeting took place in Brussels on 13 December 2023.

Attendance

2023 Western Balkans summit
Country		Represented by	Title	Ref.
	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
	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

References

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v t e Berlin Process
Conferences	2014 Berlin 2015 Vienna 2016 Paris 2017 Trieste 2018 London 2019 Poznań 2020 Sofia 2021 Berlin 2022 Berlin 2023 Tirana
Bodies	Southeast Europe Transport Community
Non-member states	Screened candidates Albania Montenegro North Macedonia Serbia Unscreened candidates Bosnia and Herzegovina Ukraine Georgia Moldova Unscreened potential candidates Kosovo
Member states	European Union partner states Austria France Germany Italy Other European Union states involved Bulgaria Croatia Poland Slovenia
See Also: Future enlargement of the European Union

• 21st-century diplomatic conferences
• 2023 conferences
• 2023 in politics
• 2023 in international relations
• Diplomatic conferences in Albania
• Enlargement of the European Union
• Foreign relations of Albania
• Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Foreign relations of Kosovo
• Foreign relations of North Macedonia
• Foreign relations of Montenegro
• Foreign relations of Serbia
• International relations in Southeastern Europe