European Western Balkans

BRUSSELS - The European Council on Friday released a package of conclusions adopted at the December 14-15 Brussels summit, in which it reaffirmed "its full and unequivocal commitment to the EU membership perspective of the Western Balkans", calling for acceleration of the region's accession process.

The European Movement of Serbia says that grouping the existing chapters into six clusters is inapplicable from the point of view of Serbia.

The European Commissioner for Enlargement and Good Neighbourhood Johannes Hahn wrote in Twitter that it was time to finalize the historic project of uniting Europe and integration in the Western Balkans.

Interview with Dimitar Bechev originally seen on European Western Balkans.

, research fellow at the Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Bechev is also a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG).

The European Union should end accession negotiations with Turkey and pursue a different kind of cooperation with the country, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told Kathimerini in an interview published on Sunday.

Former Croatian Foreign Minister and current MEP Tonino Picula believes that "Bulgaria can be a significant mediator" in the negotiations for the accession of the countries of the Western Balkans to the European Union (EU).

During a visit to Serbia, European Union enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn has urged the country to implement "difficult reforms" and to normalize ties with Kosovo in order to be able to join the bloc by 2025.

The EU will present its enlargement strategy, "The Credible Enlargement Perspective for the Western Balkans," on February 6.

This will happen during a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Tanjug reported on Monday citing the European Western Balkans website, which said it learned this exclusively.

This will happen during a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Tanjug reported on Monday citing the European Western Balkans website, which said it learned this exclusively.

Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic said in Brussels on Tuesday that Serbia now has a certain European future.

This is influenced by internal reforms in the country, the strategy on enlargement of the president of the European Commission, but also the announced continuity in German foreign policy and policy towards the Balkans, the government quoted her as saying.