PREUGOVOR – REPORT ON PROGRESS OF SERBIA IN CHAPTERS 23 AND 24 October 2016
PREUGOVOR – REPORT ON PROGRESS OF SERBIA IN CHAPTERS 23 AND 24 October 2016

Contributor(s): Milan Aleksić (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: Grupa 484
Keywords: EU accession; Chapters 23 and 24; government formation; security sector oversight; anti-corruption
Summary/Abstract: In Serbia, the six-month period preceding this report has been marked by several major events, some of them of relevance or directly linked to the EU integration process. The long-awaited opening of Chapters 23 and 24 of the EU negotiation process finally occurred on 18 July – more than two and a half years after the official commencement of negotiations in January 2014 and seven months after the first negotiation chapters (32 and 35) were opened in December 2015. Even though it had been announced long before July 2016, the opening of Chapters 23 and 24 was postponed several times due to various requests made by EU member states, particularly those made by Croatia with regards to Chapter 23. Croatia tried to impel Serbia to change its Law on Regional Jurisdiction for War Crimes but this attempt failed due to a lack of support from other EU member states. Although Croatia finally agreed to the opening of Chapter 23, there are still no guarantees that Croatia, or another state, will not seek to embed the same (bilateral) requests into the general EU position on this chapter further along the negotiation process.

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