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Balkans must join the EU eventually, European leaders say – Reuters

By Robin Emmott | BRUSSELS

BRUSSELS More Balkan states can still join the European Union if they stick to a path of economic and democratic reform, Europe's leaders said on Thursday at a summit meant to cement the bloc's long-term commitment to stabilize a region mired in political crisis.

EU leaders placed the Balkans high on the agenda of their summit in Brussels to show that despite ethnic tensions and the scars from wars fought in the 1990s, the region is a priority for the European Union, particularly as Russia also seeks to increase its influence there.

"The Western Balkan countries have an unequivocal European perspective," said Jean-Claude Juncker, the head of the European Commission which is leading membership negotiations with Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia.

"We are not stepping away, but stepping in," he said.

Two years ago, Juncker said no new countries would join the EU during his mandate at the Commission, which runs until 2019.

Officials said that was a technicality because the Balkans were not ready to join. But some in the region say the message damaged the EU's credibility.

Britain will hold a special summit on the Western Balkans in 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May said, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel also stressed the importance of the region.

Thursday's meeting did not prescribe new EU policies for the Balkans, but diplomats said European leaders would try to visit more often to encourage reform.

"For the countries in the Balkans, that matters," said a senior EU official. "There's a sense that their European path has slipped away. But their only path is toward the EU."

Russia, which is trying to exploit its historic links in the region to challenge EU and U.S. involvement, opposes the accession of Balkan states into the EU.

It refuses to recognize the independence of Kosovo and opposes Montenegro's membership of the U.S.-led NATO alliance.

The Balkan countries are at various stages of reforms aimed at paving the way for EU membership, with Serbia seen as a linchpin whose development could pull up others.

But despite some progress over the past five years, reforms across the region to the judiciary and the business climate have stalled, allowing organized crime to flourish and encouraging more migrants to head north to the EU.

Britain's May warned of "the potential for increased instability and the risks ... to our collective security."

Macedonia is mired in a political crisis, while Serbia does not recognize the independence of Kosovo, its former province, and accuses it of seeking a war with Belgrade.

In Montenegro, both pro-Western and opposition parties are boycotting the parliament following a recent vote in which they say people were intimidated to back the government.

(Reporting by Robin Emmott; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

BEIRUT U.S.-backed Syrian militias said on Thursday they have enough forces to capture the city of Raqqa from Islamic State with support from the U.S.-led coalition, underlining their opposition to any Turkish role in the attack.

SHANGHAI/SEOUL Pressure in China on travel firms forced airlines and cruise operators to cut routes to South Korea, as the fallout spread on Friday from a diplomatic row over Seoul's plans to deploy a U.S. missile defense system against Beijing's objections.

ISTANBUL A helicopter carrying an executive of the Turkish Eczabicasi group and four Russians, including the firm's Russian operations chief, crashed in Istanbul on Friday, killing five of the seven people on board, the company's chairman said.

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Poles apart: European Union set for summit job spat – Reuters

BRUSSELS Poland's prime minister will go head to head with her 27 European Union peers in Brussels on Thursday in a row over the reappointment of the Polish chairman of their summits that has left the other member states bemused.

The clash, rooted in bitter rivalry between Donald Tusk, the chairman of the European Council, and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's right-wing ruling party, is casting a shadow over efforts to forge a new unity in the EU as Britain prepares to quit.

Diplomats confidently predict a second term for Tusk, a former premier of Poland who was appointed Council chairman in 2014 before his own centrist Civic Platform party was ousted by the eurosceptic Law and Justice party of his nemesis Kaczynski.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo's tactic on Thursday will be to pressure the other EU leaders to delay their decision, thereby possibly opening the way for an alternative candidate.

"We will do everything to ensure that the reappointment does not take place today," said Poland's Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski.

Tusk enjoys wide backing, as demonstrated by comments from Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte: "The Netherlands supports the candidacy of Donald Tusk... He is always fair as chairman with his eye on the ball. In very turbulent times he has kept a cool head."

But Poland's intransigence means the reappointment could require hours of haggling. If Poland secures a delay, the top job will definitely not go to another Pole, diplomats said.

EAST-WEST DIVIDE

With British Prime Minister Theresa May attending her last such summit before she formally launches the two-year Brexit process later this month, the remaining 27 EU leaders have bigger problems to worry about than the Council chair.

They will meet again on Friday, but minus May, to prepare for a "unity" summit to be held in Rome on March 25, the 60th anniversary of the treaty that laid the EU's foundation.

The row with Poland, the bloc's biggest ex-communist state, has highlighted a deepening split between eastern members reluctant to cede national freedoms to Brussels and the richer western states that want to deepen EU integration in the hope it can boost prosperity and security and thus stem the rise of Brexit-inspired eurosceptics.

Talk of a "two-speed Europe" has intensified in recent months. Germany's Angela Merkel and other leaders say allowing states willing to pull closer together is crucial to the EU's survival, but wary easterners fear they could be left behind.

In theory, Poland's case against Tusk is doomed as leaders can simply reappoint him with an overwhelming majority vote.

But Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose turn it is to chair proceedings, may try to forge some kind of consensus at the table. Tusk will leave the room as his fate is decided.

Kaczynski holds Tusk "morally responsible" for the death of his twin brother. Tusk was prime minister in 2010 when Lech Kaczynski, the then-Polish president, was killed in an air crash in Russia. Inquiries in both countries blamed pilot error.

In a letter to fellow leaders, Szydlo said Warsaw wants Tusk out because he has criticized government policies back home.

Tusk is concerned that Kaczynski is undermining Polish democracy, a view shared by others in the EU, but Szydlo framed her objections to his reappointment in terms of protecting sovereign national powers from Brussels.

The talks on Thursday afternoon should see agreement on pressing ahead with new free trade pacts despite "protectionist tendencies" elsewhere - a reference to European concerns about new U.S. President Donald Trump.

Over dinner, leaders are due to pledge continued support - and possible EU and NATO membership - to western Balkan states where they are worried about what they see as the anti-EU influence of Russia.

The leaders will also review plans to curb illegal migration from Libya to Italy amid concerns that arrival figures are already higher this year than in 2016.

(Additionl reporting by Lidia Kelly in Warsaw and Philip Blenkinsop in Brussels, Writing by Alastair Macdonald, editing by Gareth Jones)

PARIS Centrist Emmanuel Macron saw his position as favorite to win France's presidential election boosted on Thursday in two polls, with one showing him ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the first round of the two-stage contest.

BRUSSELS A Belgian railway accident that killed one person last month was the result of the train traveling at more than double the speed limit, prosecutors said on Thursday.

ZURICH Neutral Switzerland risks getting swept up in Turkey's political row with European countries as Swiss authorities weigh how to handle Turks' requests for asylum and a call to ban a rally on Sunday by Turkey's foreign minister.

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