{"id":24447,"date":"2026-02-25T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/24447\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:42:06","slug":"brussels-aims-to-end-mobile-roaming-surcharges-in-western-balkans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/24447\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels aims to end mobile roaming surcharges in Western Balkans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">People travelling from the European Union to the Western Balkans are to be exempt from mobile roaming surcharges in the future under plans from the European Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The commission aims to start negotiations with Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia on dropping the extra fees, pending approval by EU countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Voluntary agreements between some mobile phone providers in the EU and in the six Western Balkans countries already allow for reduced roaming rates to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Should the proposed negotiations lead to agreements, travellers from the EU would be able to use their mobile devices at the same rates as they do in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since 2017, people living in the EU have not had to pay additional mobile phone charges when travelling in other EU countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People travelling from the European Union to the Western Balkans are to be exempt from mobile roaming surcharges&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,15112,4093,73,16111,16110,16109],"class_list":{"0":"post-24447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-eu-commission","11":"tag-eu-countries","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-mobile-devices","14":"tag-mobile-roaming","15":"tag-western-balkans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}