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BRUSSELS – The eighth Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) between the EU and Albania will be held tonight in Brussels, marking a new step in Albania’s accession process after the country fulfilled the interim benchmarks for Cluster 1 “Fundamentals”. At the conference, the EU is ex…

Saturday’s protest in Belgrade gathered between 180.000 and 190.000 people. The police, in line with the government’s usual understanding of mathematics, claimed there were only around 34.000. It was not only one of the largest gatherings Serbia has seen in recent years, but it w…

BELGRADE – Up to 190 thousand people gathered at Belgrade’s Slavija Square on 23 May in the second largest protest in Serbia since the fall of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, underscoring the scale and persistence of the student-led movement that emerged as a political actor …

BELGRADE – Hungary’s MOL Group has received approval from the United States to continue on the purchase of the Russian stake in Serbian Oil Company (NIS), Dubravka Đedović Handanović, Serbian Mining and Energy Minister stated on Friday. The new deadline for concluding…

BRUSSELS – The eighth EU-Albania Accession Conference will be held on 26 May to confirm Albania’s fulfilment of the interim benchmarks and to set closing benchmarks for Cluster 1 ‘Fundamentals’, the Council announced today. This means that Albania will be able to begin closing ne…

VIENNA – New Hungarian Prime Péter Magyar stated that the EU must admit long-standing Western Balkan candidates before Ukraine, because otherwise it could lose credibility in the region. “As for EU membership in principle, I want to encourage European countries to, be…

BELGRADE – Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka discussed strengthening economic cooperation today, continuing negotiations on a free trade agreement, and the possibility of further increasi…

PODGORICE – “No one reaches this stage of the enlargement process without enormous effort, nor becomes a member of the European Union without even greater national determination and unity in the final stretch of that journey”, said European Commissioner for Enla…

BERLIN – Ukraine should get an “associate Membership” in the European Union as a decisive step on its path towards full membership, while Western Balkans and Moldova could also be brought closer to the EU and their accession process accelerated, Chancellor of Ge…

BRUSSELS – Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia circulated a confidential document among other European Union Member States last week, proposing a “merit-based access – if necessary, step by step – to the European single market”, Euractiv re…

SKOPJE – “At a time of major geopolitical and economic challenges, the region needs more coordination, stronger connectivity and more joint investments”, stated Bekim Sali, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for European Affairs of North Macedonia, in his opening remarks at…

BRUSSELS – EU Member States are close to reaching a consensus on the draft EU Common Position related to Albania’s Interim Benchmark Assessment Report (IBAR), European Western Balkans learns from sources in the Council. Discussions within the Council Working Party on …

SKOPJE – Albanian students in North Macedonia gathered in Skopje, continuing protests demanding that they be allowed to take the judicial exam in the Albanian language. According to media reports, five students were arrested during yesterday’s protest, while students …

BELGRADE/ PODGORICA – Relations between Belgrade and Podgorica have been strained again, and the reason for the latest friction is marking of the 20th anniversary of the restoration of Montenegro’s independence. The heated public debate began with the statement of Serbian P…

BELGRADE /PRISTINA – European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said today in Pristina that a constructive engagement in the dialogue with Serbia is a prerequisite for opening formal EU accession negotiations with Kosovo and advancing its European integration. “This also mea…

New disagreements are complicating efforts to finalize the sale of the majority share of Serbian energy company Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS) to Hungary’s MOL Group. The Serbian government, which holds a 29.9 percent stake in NIS, has rejected a new proposal by MOL amid ongoing …

SARAJEVO – On 13 May, the Commander of EUFOR, Major General Maurizio Fronda, co-hosted an Ambassador’s Roundtable at Camp Butmir alongside the Commander of NATO Headquarters Sarajevo, bringing together key international representatives for high-level discussions on the security e…

BRUSSELS – On 13 May, the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU held the inaugural meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group for the drafting of Montenegro’s Accession Treaty – a landmark milestone in Montenegro’s EU accession journey. “This important step sends a stro…

BRUSSELS – Separate meetings with the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia were held in Brussels this week as a part of preparations for the continuation of the EU-facilitated dialogue on the normalization of relations. As EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristi…

PRISTINA – The deadline for submitting candidate lists for the snap parliamentary elections for the Assembly of Kosovo, scheduled to take place later this year, expired last night, KoSSev reports. According to data from the Central Election Commission (CEC), a total of 23 p…

BRUSSELS – The Central European Free Trade Agreement Secretariat has opened the call for the CEFTA Research Award 2026, inviting Master’s thesis candidates and PhD students from CEFTA Parties to submit policy research papers focused on regional trade, regulatory converg…

NEW YORK – Outgoing High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt said yesterday at the session of the United Nations Security Council that he will step down from the position in June. The debate on the situation in BiH was also marked by signals that the …

The general election in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been called for 4 October 2026 and will take place against a backdrop of heightened political tensions in both entities – the Serb majority Republika Srpska and the Bosniak-Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Politi…

PODGORICA – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said today during his visit to Montenegro that there are actors trying to pull the Western Balkans backwards and destabilise the region, but that NATO is committed to ensuring that all the problems of the past remain in the past…

BRUSSELS – According to the newest edition of the Standard Eurobarometer, citizens of the Western Balkans generally have high trust in the European Union, with Serbia once again being an outlier. The survey was conducted in March and April and published on 8 May. Trust in t…