On Thursday 17 July, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a high-level conference on EU enlargement with two European affairs ministers from the Western Balkan countries: Maida Gorčević (Montenegro) and Orhan Murtezani (North Macedonia).
The ‘Enlargement Candidate Members’ initiative, of which this conference is part, aims to include civil society in the candidate countries in the accession process in order to make it more fluid and “strengthen its democratic...