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Western Balkans Summit at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other attendees pose for a family photo at the Western Balkans Summit at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 3, 2022.  👉 Western Balkans leaders signed agreements on mutual recognition of identity cards, university degrees and professional qualifications Thursday at a summit in Berlin.  This move towards closer integration aims to bring greater stability to a region that emerged from the break-up of Yugoslavia and the ethnic wars of the 1990s and is still wracked by tensions.  They also aim to bring Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania closer to their stated goal of joining the neighboring European Union amid fears about the rising influence of Russia and China in the region.  Serbia, in particular, which was bombed by NATO two decades ago, has long struggled to b...