France President Macron and Croatia Prime Minister Plenkovic Meet in Paris

French President Emmanuel Macron and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic met at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, Tuesday, January 7.
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READ MORE: Croatia took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on January 1.

The were set to talk about the further enlargement of the European Union ahead of a summit between the EU and the Western Balkans due to take place in Zagreb in May.

Accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia stalled last October due to strong opposition from France.

Macron said on Tuesday he wanted enlargement to stop being "just a bureaucratic process and become a real political pathway." (Reuters)