Category: EU Western Balkans

This piece was originally published od BiEPAG blog    Another lengthy and detailed EC appraisal of Albania’s EU integration efforts over the last 12 months was met with low anticipation in Tirana this Wednesday (October 12th). In fact, it was the recommendation for BiH’s candidate status and the repeated call to abolish the visa regime […]

BRUSSELS – Corruption remains one of the biggest obstacles on the region’s path towards the European Union, state the latest European Commission’s reports on the Western Balkan countries. All Western Balkans countries made some progress in the fight against corruption (or limited progress in the case of Montenegro), except for Bosnia and Herzegovina, where no progress has been made in this […]

BRUSSELS — European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, presented the Annual Enlargement Package for 2022 during a session in European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) held on Wednesday. In his opening remarks, Várhelyi gave an overview of the progress made by the Western Balkans six and Turkey on their path of EU integration. […]

PRAGUE – EU Enlargement Think-tank Forum “Rethinking Enlargement in times of Geopolitical Earthquakes” organized by EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy in cooperation with other partners will take place between 13th and 14th October 2022 in Prague. The Forum is organized in close cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the Office […]

BRUSSELS – European Commission has published the 2022 country reports for the six Western Balkans states and Turkey. Here we present the key findings in the country report on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The fundamentals of the accession process As regards political criteria, parties based in the Republika Srpska entity blocked state-level legislative and executive institutions until spring […]

BRUSSELS – European Commission has published the 2022 country reports for the six Western Balkans states and Turkey. Here we present the key findings in the country report on Kosovo. The fundamentals of the accession process The reporting period overlapped with the first full year in office of the Vetëvendosje-led government. Kosovo enjoyed political stability, […]

European Commission has published the 2022 country reports for the six Western Balkans states and Turkey. Here we present the key findings in the country report on Albania. The fundamentals of the accession process As regards the political criteria, in the new legislature, resulting from the 2021 elections, which were held following the cross-party agreement […]

BRUSSELS – European Commission has published the 2022 country reports for the six Western Balkans states and Turkey. Here we present the key findings in the country report on Serbia. The fundamentals of the accession process As regards the political criteria, all relevant political actors took part in the early parliamentary elections on 3 April 2022, […]

BRUSSELS – European Commission has published the 2022 country reports for the six Western Balkans states and Turkey. Here we present the key findings in the country report on Montenegro. The fundamentals of the accession process As regards the political criteria, political tensions, polarisation, the absence of constructive engagement between political parties and the failure […]

BELGRADE – “The integrity of government remains under serious stress in the Western Balkans, while the margin for civil society action has further decreased as a result of the war in Ukraine, which has strengthened autocratic forces in the region,“  states the latest regional assessment report.  The report published by the Southeast Europe Leadership for […]