PrEUgovor : Report on Progress of Serbia in Chapters 23 and 24
PrEUgovor : Report on Progress of Serbia in Chapters 23 and 24

Author(s): Not Specified Author
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Civil Society, Security and defense, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Politics and Identity
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Serbia EU accession; European Commission (EC); Serbia-Kosovo relations; Anti-corruption goals; Gender-based violence; Migration policy; Asylum policy; Human trafficking
Summary/Abstract: Serbia officially started the negotiation process for its accession to European Union (EU) in January 2014, more than two years. So far, only two negotiation chapters have been opened: 32 (Financial Control), 35 (Other Issues, which in Serbia’s case, refers to Belgrade-Pristina relations), thus she was invited to prepare negotiation positions for two other chapters: 14 (Transport Policy) and 21 (Trans-European Networks). Negotiations on Chapters 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights) and 24 (Justice, Freedom and Security), being of the most relevance for the following report, have yet to be opened, despite the facts that this was announced at the beginning of the negotiation process and that these chapters were the first to be opened during the latest round of EU enlargement. Finally, even though their opening has been scheduled for June 2016, this has also been called into doubt since Croatia, now an EU member state, recently raised reservations over certain issues covered by Chapter 23.

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