EU Talks 2.0

EU Talks 2.0

There is a common opinion that neither in the Western Balkans nor in the EU institutions and Member States sufficient efforts has been invested in increasing knowledge about each other, improving mutual perceptions, and facilitating adoption of EU values, norms,...
Enlargement Monitor

Enlargement Monitor

With the adoption of the Communication on Enlargement in February 2018, the Commission envisaged a substantial change of approach towards the Western Balkans. Six initiatives have been defined to help meet the membership criteria. It soon turned out that EU members...
New Methodology for Running EU Accession Negotiations

New Methodology for Running EU Accession Negotiations

  European Union failed to decide to open accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania in October 2019, despite the positive recommendation from the Commission. France was the most active against opening negotiations and it was backed with some other...