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The strategy detailed by Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union address in September 2017 and prepared in advance by the Commission and EEAS includes an action plan focusing on six initiatives relating to the EU's strategy in the Balkans with an increased budget allocated to pre-accession instruments and regional initiatives. [6]
The EU's relations with the Western Balkans states were moved from the "External Relations" to the "Enlargement" policy segment in 2005. As of 2022, Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , North Macedonia , Montenegro and Serbia are officially recognized as candidates for membership.
The 2003 European Council summit in Thessaloniki set the integration of the Western Balkans as a priority of EU expansion. Slovenia was the first former Yugoslav country to join the EU in 2004, followed by Croatia in 2013. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia have all been officially granted candidate status.
For the six Western Balkans countries aspiring to join the European Union, gaining full membership in the 27-nation club remains a distant goal. EU and Western Balkans leaders worked to strengthen ...
The leaders of Western Balkan countries pledged Monday to make full use of the European Union's financial support plan of six billion euros (about $6.5 billion) as they continue to seek membership ...
The 2022 EU–Western Balkans summit was the fourth edition of the European Union–Western Balkans summit held on 6 December 2022 in Tirana, Albania.Hosted by the Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, the summit brought together heads of state and government from the Western Balkan nations, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, alongside other EU ...
The EU established a regional approach to the Western Balkans in 1997, with political and economic conditionality criteria for the development of bilateral relations. The following year, an EU/Bosnia and Herzegovina Consultative Task Force was put in place to start the process. Since 2006, the task force has been replaced by the Reform Process ...
With four of the members being EU members and the other non-EU members, the Strategy hopes to further support the EU integration process of the Western Balkans. [5] The work of the EUSAIR is coordinated by a Governing Board. Each participating country rotates in chairing the EUSAIR with the support of the European Commission.