At the Western Balkans Summit in Berlin on 3 November, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki met with the leaders of six Balkan countries and European partners supporting integration into the region. The talks focused on the prospects for integration of the Western Balkan countries, energy security and further strengthening of cooperation.

“The multifaceted consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine do not only affect the countries of the European Union. The countries of the Western Balkans are extremely important to us and therefore we must work with them on a common response to the crisis caused by Putin’s criminal regime”, the Polish Prime Minister stressed.

“It is very important for us, because 3 of the 6 Western Balkan states are already NATO members, so this is an expansion of the security space. These states are particularly under attack today through fake news and Russian propaganda. We can clearly see how the conflict in Ukraine is spreading to the continent”, said Morawiecki.

At the press conference, the Prime Minister reported that during the summit he spoke primarily about the impact of Russian aggression against Ukraine on the energy crisis.

‘Today we are at a moment of deep interdependence between what is happening in the south, in the west, in the north and what is happening in the east’, he explained.

„At the meeting, I emphasised the link between the energy crisis, Russia’s criminal aggression against Ukraine and the integration process – including energy. Russia has unleashed a war not only against Ukraine, but also against the European Union”, said Prime Minister Morawiecki.

The Berlin summit was attended by six Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia and some European Union Member States. An additional participant was the United Kingdom. European and international institutions were also present and involved in the summit.

Adrian Andrzejewski