This 2025 report shows that the Western Balkan Six have made considerable progress in aligning their employment and social policy frameworks with the European Pillar of Social Rights.
Western Balkans
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The European Commission has positively approved Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Reform Agenda – a key step toward releasing up to €976.6 million under the EU’s Reform and Growth Facility.
Today, the seventh meeting of the Accession Conference with Albania marked the opening of negotiations on the so-called cluster 5: resources, agriculture and cohesion. This cluster is the last remaining and covers notably: agriculture and fisheries, food safety and cohesion policies.
Today, Bulgaria and North Macedonia, represented, respectively, by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Communications Grozdan Karadjov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Aleksandar Nikoloski signed an agreement on the preparation, construction and operation of a…
Commissioner Magnus Brunner signed a new Joint Action Plan on Preventing and Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism between the EU and its Western Balkan partners, in the margins of the EU-Western Balkans Ministerial Forum on Justice and Home Affairs in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The European Commission has welcomed 40 banks from Albania, Moldova, Montenegro and North Macedonia have officially joined the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) schemes. This historic development is set to make euro transactions between these four partners and the European Union more reliable…
The European Commission has released funding for Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia as part of the EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans. This decision acknowledges the significant reforms partners have made to better align with EU standards.
Thank you, Prime Minister, dear Edi, for hosting this Forum here in Tirana. Ladies and gentlemen, One year ago, I came to Albania and to the entire region with a pledge. The pledge that the people and companies of the Western Balkans would start to experience the European Union…
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will travel to the Western Balkans on Sunday. This will be the occasion to reiterate the EU’s support for the region’s EU accession path and gradual access to the Single Market, and to discuss the EU’s €6 billion Growth Plan for the…
Today, Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos begins a three-day trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina to underscore the EU’s support for the country’s European future.
