European integration

Serbia is strategically committed to EU integration, and its interest lies in regional stability, Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday.

He was speaking at an OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Hamburg, Germany.

The EU is "the best peace and stability project post-WWII, despite the fact the challenges it faces encourage nationalism, populism and Euroskepticism."

Serbian Minister for without Portfolio for EU Integration Jadranka Joksimovic said this on Thursday.

Minister without portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic says it is important for the country to open new chapters by the end of the year.

She said the importance of this was in the fact 2017 will be "very difficult for the (EU accession) negotiating process" due to elections in key EU member-states.

The countries members of the Visegrad Four - Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic insist on a quick integration of the states from the Western Balkans in the EU, announced the foreign ministers of the Four after a meeting with Federica Mogherini High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and foreign ministers of 16 European countries from East

The European Parliament called on the EU and its states to do more to counter Russian "disinformation and propaganda warfare" on Wednesday, drawing an angry response from President Vladimir Putin.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic spoke with representatives of Nordic countries about Serbia's EU integration process, strengthening of economic cooperation, enhancing activities in that field and improving of business relations.

The big confusion about Europe's future will not obstruct internal changes and reforms in Serbia, says Serbia's chief negotiator with the EU Tanja Miscevic.

The European Union will introduce stricter controls on its external borders, the head of its executive said on Wednesday, as the bloc looks for ways to assuage widespread concerns among its citizens over immigration and security.

EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn is visiting Serbia on Saturday "convey EU's strong support for the reform program and the process of EU integration of Serbia."

The increasing tensions in the Western Balkans pose a serious risk to Hungary’s security, Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto has said.

According to him, this is why the EU integration of these countries should be sped up, including completing accession talks with Serbia by 2020.