Following the publication of the annual European Commission Enlargement Package 2022, BCSDN is issuing the 13th background analysis assessing the progress made in the area of civil society development and dialogue with public institutions in Enlargement countries against the BCSDN Monitoring Matrix. The 2022 Enlargement Package comes in the wake of radical geo-political and economic developments in Europe but brings a few novelties. The EC has finally recommended “conditional” candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina, while North Macedonia and Albania held the first intergovernmental conferences marking the start of their negotiation process. On the other hand, Kosovo was not granted the long-awaited visa liberalization, despite the political stability and the national authorities’ commitment to Kosovo’s European path. The package has also highlighted Serbia and Montenegro’s success and downturns in their accession path. Read more here.
Source: BCSDN
