Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski, his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will take part in the high level meeting between EU and Western Balkans leaders in Brussels on June 23 ahead of the June 23-24 European Council, news agency MIA informs.

Albanian Prime Minister Rama said in a Twitter post that after lengthy consultations, the three leaders of the Open Balkans countries decided to go to Brussels despite not having high hopes for the summit. “We’ll attend the EU Council meeting.

There won’t be much to hear about us but we’ll ask to be heard on the idea of a New European Political Community which we support, on the Open Balkans which takes forward the spirit of Europe and on our kidnapping by Bulgaria which destroys it,” Rama wrote.

“Just heard right now that something is moving today in Bulgaria,” he added in another tweet.

“Too early to be optimistic and too little to change the part of tomorrow’s speech where Bulgaria is criticized as a country which has kidnapped two NATO countries while there is a hot war at Europe’s border!” Kovachevski, Rama, and Vucic were invited together with other Western Balkan leaders to meet with EU member state leaders on Thursday, ahead of the EU Council summit during which EU enlargement will be discussed.