The topic of how to keep the enlargement policy in line with the EU’s agenda, bearing in mind the multiplicity of its priorities (Brexit, the upcoming European Parliament elections, other internal and external problems), was discussed by Peter Balash, Director of the Center for European Neighborhood Studies at Central European University (CEP), Corina Stratulat, Head of European Politics and Institutions programme and Senior Policy Analyst at the Brussels think tank European Policy Centre – EPC, and Tomasz Żornaczuk, Head of the Central Europe Programme at the Polish Institute of International Affairs.

Participants agreed that the progress of the countries in the region is slow, especially in the areas of democracy, rule of law, good governance, economic development, and good neighbourly relations, which are more or less the same problems shared by all the countries of the Western Balkans.

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The conference was jointly organized by the European Policy Centre (CEP, Belgrade), the Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (CFA / ÖFZ), the Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE, Nice / Berlin), supported and in cooperation with the Open Regional Funds South- East Europe – Promotion of European Integration (German Cooperation – GIZ), Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI, Paris), Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI, Rome), the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP, Brussels) and the European Commission (Erasmus + program).