This paper examines some directions, policies and practices in human capacity development for EU accession in the Western Balkan and CEE countries and aims to induce a more vivid regional level debate on the best approaches to recruiting, forming and retaining professional staff needed for achieving and upholding EU membership.

European Policy Centre – CEP took part in this year’s edition of EU-28 Watch, the internet database compiling material on discourses on European policies in its Member States and six accession countries.

Within the project “Reforming Policy Coordination and the Centre of Government”, funded by the European Union and implemented by a consortium led by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, CEP’s experts Milena Lazarević and Marko Obradović were commissioned to carry out fieldwork and provide a detailed map of the existing policy cycle at the national […]

Background paper was produced for the needs of implementing Regional Workshop of the Network of the EU Integration Offices in South East Europe within the GIZ Open Regional Fund (ORF) project.