European integration

BELGRADE - Serbia is making systematic progress towards the EU and this orientation will be reaffirmed on October 8, when the European Commission is to present its progress report, says the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Michael Davenport.

BELGRADE - The 4th Belgrade Security Forum, titled Europe 2014: Closure and/or New Beginning, to be attended by many politicians and foreign policy and security experts, began on Tuesday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Belgrade.

BELGRADE- Head of Serbia's negotiating team in accession talks with the EU Tanja Miscevic met on Monday with a delegation of the German federal state Baden-Wuerttemberg, and stressed that Serbian government is committed to the reforms and that its aim is not EU membership alone, but a stable Serbia with strong institutions.

BELGRADE - The fourth National Cross-Border Cooperation Conference, whose goal is to point to the results achieved in this area, will be held in Belgrade on Friday and organized by the Serbian government's Office for European Integration.

BELGRADE - Serbia's public servants have to be fewer in number and more efficient, and although the surplus of employees in the administration is not large, they need to be better trained.

This calls for hiring and training civil servants in order to boost the country's EU integration, according to what was concluded at a debate on measuring the performance of the public sector.

BELGRADE - Serbia has achieved considerable progress in the European integration process, Serbian Minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic said in the talks with Chairman of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with Countries of South East Europe Eduard Kukan on Friday.

Croatia to assist Macedonia's EU integration

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic met with former EU enlargement commissioner Guenther Verheugen on Tuesday to discuss EU integration.

Joksimovic informed Verheugen about Serbia's plan to harmonise its legislation with the EU's, the Serbian government office for media relations has stated.

EU has "no alternative" to enlargement - ex-commissioner

BELGRADE -- It is not possible to tell when the next country or a group of countries would be granted EU membership, a gathering in Belgrade has heard.

BELGRADE - It is not possible to tell when the next country or a group of countries would be granted EU membership due to problems in the Union and the challenges on its margins, but the process must not be allowed to stop under any excuse, participants of the conference entitled 'EU and the Western Balkans' stated on Monday.