Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová received Speaker of the Slovenian National Assembly Urška Klakočar Zupančič.
The main topic of the joint meeting was the current issue of the expansion of the European Union to include Ukraine, Moldova and the countries of the Western Balkans. Both speakers agreed that the sharing of experience with accession negotiations between existing members of the Union and countries aspiring to membership can also play an important role in the entire process.
“Ukraine, Moldova, or the countries of the Western Balkans are standing at the gates of the European Union today. Its expansion will be mutually beneficial, provided that the aspiring states meet all the necessary conditions. For them, acceptance into the family of EU member states will mean closer political and economic attachment to the West, and for all of us, the strengthening of important allies in the key region. It is therefore our joint geostrategic priority,” said the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová.
Slovenia, like the Czech Republic, joined the European Union on May 1, 2004.
“Mrs. Speaker and I agreed that it is absolutely necessary to support the process of expanding the EU to include additional aspiring members, e.g. through the transfer of experience and knowledge that our own countries gained more than twenty years ago during the final stage of the long accession negotiations,” added the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová of the Chamber of Deputies. At the very end of the joint meeting, she received an invitation from her Slovenian colleague for a reciprocal visit to Ljubljana.