Staged Accession Model as a proposal for operationalisation of the revised enlargement methodology

On February 5th, 2020, the European Commission proposed a revised enlargement methodology, officially endorsed by the Council of the European Union fifty days later. The new methodology is built on four main principles: credibility, stronger political steer, more dynamic process and predictability. Within this methodology, which aims to provide a credible accession perspective to the candidate countries, ideas of early integration into EU institutions and “phasing-in” to individual EU policies and programmes have emerged. Nonetheless, it soon became apparent that, in the absence of concrete content, this methodology failed to produce an actual meaningful change in the Western Balkans’ EU…

Breaking down Serbia’s 2022 Constitutional Amendments

On that day, the citizens of Serbia will be able, with YES or NO, to answer the question “Are you in favour of confirming the Draft Amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia” and thus potentially accept or…

Common Regional Market – what’s in it for you

At the Sofia Summit on 10 November 2020, the leaders of the Western Balkans launched the Common Regional Market initiative – the most ambitious regional integration effort to date in the Western Balkans. What’s in it for you – citizens,…

New negotiating structure

The Government of Serbia has passed a Decision that changes the current negotiating structure, in accordance with the revised methodology of EU enlargement. What will the new negotiating structure look like? What are the key innovations and what are the…

What is a linear and what is a circular economy?

The term “circular economy” is increasingly being mentioned in public sphere. The circular economy is one of the most important aspects of the European Green Deal, presented by the European Commission at the end of last year, with an intention…