| Western Balkans Summit "Trieste Balkans 2017" | |
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.svg) Participating non-EU states
Participating EU states
Rest of the EU | |
| Host country | Italy |
| Dates | 12 July 2017[1] |
| Cities |  Trieste[2] |
| Participants |
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| Chair | Paolo Gentiloni |
| Follows | 2016 Western Balkans Summit, Paris |
| Precedes | 2018 Western Balkans Summit, London |
| Key points | |
The 2017 Western Balkans Summit in Trieste, Italy was the fourth annual summit within the Berlin Process initiative for European integration of Western Balkans states. Previous summits took place in Berlin in 2014, Vienna in 2015 and in Paris in 2016. Heads of government, foreign ministers and the ministers of economy of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as EU member states from the region Croatia, Slovenia and EU member states Austria, France, Germany, Italy as well as representatives of the European Union and the International Financial Institutions attended. Participants once again committed the Western Balkan's eventual path into the EU and agreed the next Berlin Process Summit would take place in London.
- ^ Western Balkan Countries - Research, Technology, Innovation. "Western Balkan Summit 2017". Retrieved 24 March 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[permanent dead link] - ^ European Commission. "Joint Statement - Western Balkans Six Prime Ministers meeting". Retrieved 24 March 2017.