Zoran Zaev is expected to meet with French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe during the Balkan summit in Poland later this week, and he is expected to use the meeting to plead for a date to open the EU accession talks.

French President Emmanuel Macron today firmly dismissed any chance of EU enlargement before the Union has reformed itself and deepened its integration. Macron decried the inability of European leaders to reach decisions, most recently on the appointment of the four new leading EU officials.

Zaev was promising a date to open EU accession talks in June, and that promise has now been postponed to October, but it is pending French approval.