HRVP blog – This week I hosted President Vučić and Prime Minister Kurti in Brussels, for the eleventh gathering of the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue during my mandate. While progress has been slow, some steps forward have been made in …

Serbia applied to join the European Union (EU) in 2009 and has been a candidate for membership since 2012, along with nine other states. Serbia is the largest country in Southeast Europe seeking entry into the EU.

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During the Thessaloniki European Council in 2003, Serbia – along with 5 other Western Balkans countries – was identified as a potential candidate for EU membership. In 2007, the government took credible measures to envigor co-operation with the …

European Commission delivers its Opinion on Serbia's EU membership application, granting candidate status based on one key priority.

3 days ago · Nowhere is this clearer than in Kosovo, whose EU path remains hostage to the stalled Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. Despite Kosovo’s substantial democratization efforts, the EU continues to demand unilateral concessions, even in the wake of the Banjska attack in 2023, when Serbia-backed paramilitaries killed a Kosovar police officer and wounded two others.

2 days ago · The EU is committed to the EU membership perspective of the Western Balkans partners. Several of them are on the path to becoming EU member states through the enlargement process. ... Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue: EU appoints a new Special Representative; 27 January 2025; Frontex: EU to sign cooperation agreement with Bosnia and Herzegovina; 18 ...

Jan 27, 2025 · The Council today appointed Mr. Peter Sørensen as EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue. The tasks of the new EU Special Representative will be to facilitate the dialogue that will contribute to a comprehensive normalisation of the relations between Serbia and Kosovo* and in particular the implementation of the Agreement on the Path to Normalisation and its ...

The European Union has developed a policy to support the gradual integration of the Western Balkan countries with the EU. On 1 July 2013, Croatia became the first of the seven countries to join, and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have candidate country status.

Serbia's new parliamentary majority to accelerate the country's alignment with EU policies and values. In October 2023, Parliament adopted its resolution on the Belgrade- Pristina dialogue , where it reconfirm ed its support for the EU-facilitated Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. In February 2024, it adopted resolutiona on the