PREUGOVOR alarm : report on the progress of Serbia in chapters 23 and 24 April 2017
PREUGOVOR alarm : report on the progress of Serbia in chapters 23 and 24 April 2017

Author(s): Milan Aleksić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: EU accession; negotiation chapters; rule of law; civil society monitoring; presidential elections
Summary/Abstract: The negotiation process between Serbia and the EU has entered its fourth year, while the negotiations within Chapters 23 and 24 are approaching the end of their first year. To date, Serbia has succeeded in opening eight of the 35 negotiation chapters, some in the previous six-month period. Chapters 5 - Public Procurement and 25 - Science and Research were opened on 13 December 2016, while Chapters 20 – Enterprise and industrial Policy and 26 – Education and Culture, on 27 February 2017. Even though it was expected that Chapter 26 would be opened alongside with Chapters 5 and 25, its opening had to be delayed due to Croatia`s particular claims related to the protection of the Croatian national minority in Serbia. As this problem – ensuring school books for Croatian pupils – was resolved at the beginning of 2017, Croatia has withdrawn its reservations and agreed on the opening of Chapter 26. However, as this issue is also relevant for Chapter 23 (minority rights), it will be further kept track of within this chapter as well.

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