Webinar – Enlargement Package 2025: Brussels Meets the Western Balkans

The long-awaited annual reports on the state of preparedness and progress in the Western Balkan countries will be released on November 4th. Just a day later, CEP hosted this special webinar to examine the results.

By organising this discussion immediately after the publication of the reports, CEP maintains its tradition of creating a timely and constructive platform for dialogue with the European Commission – enabling direct engagement on the findings of the Enlargement Package as they are released.

As in previous years, the webinar will also feature perspectives from Western Balkan capitals, thanks to interventions by our regional partners from the Think for Europe Network (TEN), offering a comprehensive and comparative view of how this year’s Enlargement Package is perceived both in Brussels and across the Western Balkans.

You can watch the full webinar here.

Webinar Structure

• Keynote Address by Giulio Venneri, Deputy Head of Unit for Enlargement Strategy and Coordination, DG ENEST: Presentation of the key priorities and challenges shaping the 2025 Enlargement Package, with insights into how these will influence the future direction of EU enlargement.
• Welcome Note by Open Society Foundations Western Balkans: Having supported the Triple E Programme, the intervention will briefly outline how this and similar initiatives align with the broader goal of revitalising EU enlargement policy.
• Regional Partners’ Perspectives:

• • Institute Alternative (IA), Podgorica
  • Institute for Mediation and Democracy (IDM), Tirana
  • European Policy Centre (CEP), Belgrade
  • European Policy Institute (EPI), Skopje
  • Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), Sarajevo
  • Group for Legal and Political Studies (GLPS), Pristina

• • Q/A section