Thank you, I have a question regarding the statement that the President of the Commission posted this morning regarding the funeral of Ratko Mladić.

She is using several words to criticize this funeral.

She said it's shocking, deeply regrettable, and a failure to condemn the past, the war crimes that he committed.

The question is, in this statement,

I don't see any consequence that the European Union could take after this incident.

Is there at least one consequence that you could tell us here that the Commission plans to take in response to this funeral? Thank you.

Thank you, Jorge,

and thank you for drawing attention to the post by the President today following the funeral of Ratko Mladić.

Let me, in this context,

also remind the content of the post of the President that we have seen the images of the funeral.

Actually, the funeral took place after our midday yesterday, and the images speak for themselves.

They were shocking, also given the level of official support and the participation of ministers and military.

They demonstrate a failure to confront a dark chapter in Europe's recent history and contradict the values underpinning Serbia's path towards the European Union.

They contribute to the glorification of a war criminal.

Indeed, Ratko Mladić was responsible for genocide, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and he died while serving a life sentence for the Srebrenica genocide and other crimes,

and we are standing in solidarity with all victims,

survivors and their families who suffered from the war crimes in countries of former Yugoslavia.

As to your specific question on next steps,

we are looking into it.

Other questions, I suppose, still on this. Paula Croatian Radio Television.

Yesterday, while there was still no reaction from President von der Leyen,

Croatian Prime Minister Plenković openly criticized von der Leyen,

Costa and Kalas because of their lack of reaction.

Did the Croatian Government convey their dissatisfaction to the Commission in any way or on any level?

I'm not aware of any formal contact with the President in this regard from the Croatian leader.

What I can say and remind is that actually we did not wait to react regarding the funeral, and, as you know,

we had already put out a statement regarding and we had made it very,

very clear that any glorification of war criminals, of genocide,

denial and revisionism contradict the most fundamental European values.

And have no place in the EU or in the EU candidate countries, and I'm quoting only one element from the statement that we had put forward ahead of the funeral,

so indeed we had already put forward a position on the topic,

which our colleague Christian reminded us from this podium. You have a follow up.

Thank you, von der Leyen is planning to visit the Western Balkans next month, as far as I understand.

Will she also visit Serbia, or another follow up question,

is she in contact with the Serbian authorities these days, at this time, about what happened yesterday?

So regarding the visit and there also as I reminded the president usually does once a year a visit to the Western Balkan countries, for this year we haven't We haven't made any official announcement,

so nothing is confirmed in terms of visits or in terms of what countries will be visited,

and this is still being discussed. Other questions, please.

Yuval Molina for the Spanish news agency FA, just a quick, question on this.

Is there still the possibility then is this still an option then President von der Leyen will visit Belgrade in her tour.

Is this not out of the table still? Thank you.

As I said, the program for the next Western Balkan visit is still being put together,

so I can neither confirm nor deny at this moment any details of such a visit.

Thank you, on the possible next steps that you mentioned,

because 2 months ago you were from that podium publicly calling on Member States to open cluster 3 with Serbia.

We remember that it was discussed in this press room.

Does the European Commission still advocate the opening of cluster 3,

or at least you can commit to stop this advocacy? This is a question relating concretely.

To the enlargement process and we are very pleased to welcome back Guillaume after a well deserved break,

Guillaume will remind us of the process when it comes to the enlargement discussions and negotiations. Thank you, Paula. Hi everyone.

Indeed, so in July, we, we, made our assessment regarding, cluster 3.

So this was a technical evaluation of the different reforms and steps to be fulfilled.

And, to, open cluster 3, so this assessment was made back in July in view of the relevant,

elements at the time.

The discussions, as you know, on cluster 3 is currently with the member states, and this will, this,

this discussion, sorry, will need to take, take place also considering, the latest political developments, that we have seen.

Are the topics benefiting from the presence of Guillaume on his different files not the case?

Other subjects that you'd like to raise with us today, go ahead.