The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) was designed to develop the legislative, administrative, and institutional groundwork for eventual membership. The logic was straightforward: build capacity, and reform would follow. After more than two decades, the honest assessment is that the exercise delivered capacity but not always reform. The Reform and Growth Facility (RGF) for the […] The post What the Growth Plan signals for the future of gradual integration and pre-accession funding appeared first on European Western Balkans .