Avramopoulos: The Western Balkans and their European path
This is an op-ed piece written by European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopulous, published in Blic daily. Over the last two years, the unprecedented migration...
Tag : EU integration
Jović: Croatian blockade is weak without allies
by EWB Archives
ZAGREB/BELGRADE – One country that blocks another country (in the EU path) is “almost like none”, especially if it is among those that are not...
Croatia vetoes opening of Chapter 26 for Serbia, Vučić set to miss intergovernmental conference
by EWB Archives
BELGRADE – Croatia has vetoed the opening of Chapter 26 in Serbia’s EU accession talks, and Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić announced late Monday he would...
Mogherini wants to see ‘irreversible’ progress towards European integration of the Western Balkans
by EWB Archives
WARSAW – All Western Balkans countries have made important steps towards the European Union over the past couple of years, and the work with them...
First meeting of the Stabilisation and Association Council between the European Union and Kosovo
by EWB Archives
BRUSSELS – The Stabilisation and Association Council between the European Union and Kosovo held its first meeting on 25 November 2016. This inaugural meeting marks...
Serbia and Montenegro offer assistance to Albania in process of EU negotiations
by EWB Archives
TIRANA – Minister of European Integration, Klajda Gjosha, hosted on Monday the two Chief Negotiators for EU accession of Serbia and Montenegro. The meeting with...
Dittmann: No new conditions for Serbia on its path to the EU
by EWB Archives
BELGRADE – German Ambassador in Belgrade Axel Dittmann said today that Germany supports Serbia’s EU membership and that no new conditions are emerging, but he...
Bilateral Issues in the Western Balkans: A Threat to European Integration?
On 20 June, Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić met on the Serbo-Croatian border. After visiting both the Croatian and Serbian...
Croatia’s blocking of Serbia’s EU integration: Another case of bilateral conditionality in the Balkans
by EWB Archives
Croatia, which joined the EU in July 2013, is currently blocking Serbia’s EU accession process by raising complaints over progress made in the two negotiation...
France wants chapters opened as soon as possible
by EWB Archives
BELGRADE – France wants the chapters of the accession talks between Serbia and the EU opened in order to monitor the modernisation of the Serbian...