EU Action Plan on the Western Balkans
Between January and November 2022, almost 130 000 attempted irregular border crossings have been reported by Frontex at the EU external borders on all Western Balkan routes, three times higher […]
A Credible Enlargement Perspective for Enhanced EU Engagement with the Western Balkans
The Western Balkans are part of Europe, geographically surrounded by EU Member States. The peoples of the EU and the region have a common heritage and history and a future […]
Commission Staff Working Document, North Macedonia, 2024 Report
Following the first Intergovernmental Conference on accession negotiations on 19 July 2022, the screening sessions for all six clusters were completed on 7 December 2023. North Macedonia continued to implement […]
Commission Staff Working Document, Montenegro, 2024 Report
Accession negotiations with Montenegro were opened in June 2012. To date, 33 negotiating chapters have been opened, of which three have been provisionally closed. Montenegro continued to broadly implement the […]
Commission Staff Working Document, Serbia, 2024 Report
Since the opening of Serbia’s accession negotiations in January 2014, 22 out of 35 chapters have been opened. All chapters in cluster 1 on the fundamentals and all chapters in […]
Commission Staff Working Document, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2024 Report
Bosnia and Herzegovina applied for EU membership in February 2016. The Commission adopted an Opinion on its membership application in May 2019, setting out 14 key priorities on democracy/functionality, rule […]
Strategy for Addressing the Issues of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons for the Period from 2024 to 2030
Achieving solutions for refugees and internally displaced persons (hereinafter: IDPs) is a complex process that requires conditions for: (1) sustainable return to the country and place of origin, and (2) […]
Migration Profile of the Republic of Serbia for 2023
The Migration Profile is a comprehensive document consolidating data on all categories of migrants in the country, classified in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 of the European Parliament and […]
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Asylum and Migration Management
The Union, as an area of freedom, security and justice, shall ensure that persons are not checked when crossing internal borders, and shall develop a common policy on asylum, immigration […]
EU Western Balkans Six Flagship Initiatives
Through six flagship initiatives, the Western Balkans Strategy sets out the EU’s unprecedented support to the transformation process in the Western Balkans, targeting specific areas of interest for both the […]
