All in on EU Enlargement – Making Gradual Integration Work

Building upon CEP’s previous actions and achievements related to the Staged Accession Model, the main goal of this project is to support the gradual integration of candidates into the EU through evidence-based advocacy and capacity-building activities. Its goal goes beyond developing and promoting a single policy idea. Instead, its multifaceted approach, aimed at ensuring the vision of an expanded EU, unfolds gradually, yet remains within a foreseeable timeframe.

The project will thus focus on the following key tasks:

1) carrying out capacity-building of EU member states through the tailored series of capacity-building webinars for EU member states’ administrations aiming to strengthen their enlargement-related capacities, particularly in Foreign and European Affairs ministries and embassies,

2) conducting in-depth research and advocacy as a follow-up to the Model by conducting four (4) advocacy missions to EU member states and one (1) advocacy event in Brussels, and

3) implementing a simplified communication approach on enlargement by introducing and promoting the “TLTR (Too Long to Read) Enlargement Explainers” – short, focused, and occasionally semi-animated videos designed to summarise essential developments in EU enlargement and CEP’s issue papers for policymakers who need succinct information due to time constraints.

By integrating these components – capacity-building, research and advocacy and an innovative communication strategy – this project aims to create a multiplying effect where each activity reinforces the others.

Contact person: Ljubica Kovacevic, Project Manager, ljubica.kovacevic@cep.org.rs