Balkans fear Brexit will delay EU dream

Balkan nations wanting to join the European Union dread their trip to enrollment of a club they see as offering flourishing and dependability will confront deferrals and instability now that Britain has voted to clear out.

Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, which continued war and change in the 1990s, are all at various stages in joining the 28-country EU.

The prompt response in Balkan capitals to Britain's submission choice last Thursday was that EU enrollment endeavors would proceed undiminished.

Executive Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia would adhere to its "European way", planning to finish increase talks by 2019.

Bosnia ought not be debilitated by the British vote and should go ahead with EU reconciliation, said Denis Zvizdic, executive of Bosnia's board of priests.

In any case, there is presently acknowledgment that the Brexit change, which accompanied the EU as of now demonstrating less excitement about development, is prone to defer increase for the Balkan hopefuls. Some felt they had lost a champion in London.

"Our apprehension is that taking after Brexit the extension procedure could be backed off," said Maja Bobic, secretary-general of the European Movement in Serbia, a gathering that advances EU values.

Special edition postage stamps show Serbia and EU flags, in Belgrade January 21, 2014.

She said that as the EU arranges Britain's flight, Brussels will be centered around how the coalition can be combined as opposed to augmented.

Challenges EMERGE

Challenges for Serbia rose as right on time as Monday when it neglected to pick up the bolster it required from Britain for the following stage in promotion transactions. Serbian authorities said specialized reasons identified with Brexit were the cause.

Bosnian Serb Prime Minister Zeljka Cvijanovic said trying individuals must acknowledge that joining the EU will be postponed by Brexit "in light of the fact that it will take quite a while for the EU to unite and complete the changes it ought to have done years prior to keep such things from happening".

Expert Igor Gavran said Bosnia could expect political aftermath from Brexit "on the grounds that Britain was one of the nations that most transparently bolstered the reconciliation of Bosnia into the EU".

In Kosovo, European Integration Minister Bekim Collaku said that his nation, which withdrew from Serbia in 2008, had additionally lost a solid supporter of its EU offer.

"We know the enormous commitment Great Britain made towards building Kosovo's statehood and it will be troublesome for another nation to fill this vacuum," he told nearby media.

An Albanian authority said his nation had learnt that huge emergencies, for example, the vagrant issue, the euro and Greece diverted EU pioneers from paying consideration on the Balkans.

Montenegro's EU moderator, Andrija Pejovic, was hopeful that enrollment arrangements could push ahead as arranged, however recognized matters were misty.

"In the coming days we will see what position the EU bodies will take with respect to this issue," he said.

For Macedonia, nothing has changed post-Brexit. Its EU offer stays obstructed by a debate with Greece over its name, which Athens says ought to have a place just with its own particular territory of Macedonia.

(Reporting by Ivana Sekularac, Benet Koleka, Fatos Bytyci, Petar Komnenic, Kole Casule and Maja Zuvela; Editing by Richard Balmforth)