{"id":25340,"date":"2022-10-13T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/post\/25340"},"modified":"2024-10-14T03:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T01:00:05","slug":"%d1%83%d1%88%d1%82%d0%b5-%d0%b5%d0%b4%d0%b5%d0%bd-%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%88%d1%82%d0%b0%d1%98-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%b5%d0%ba-%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d0%bf%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc%d0%b0-%d1%81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epi.org.mk\/en\/post\/25340?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Another EC report: A new point of view, same old issues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brief analysis of the EC North Macedonia 2022 Report<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The key points in Commissioner V\u00e1rhelyi\u2019s presentation on the Enlargement Package before the Committee on Foreign Affairs were the conditional candidate status of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the intergovernmental conferences to start negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania, as well as the backsliding by Serbia regarding the common external policy, along with the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Unlike last year, this year the European Commission could present the first intergovernmental conference with Albania and the first political intergovernmental conference with North Macedonia as its main accomplishment in its policy towards the Western Balkans, and even as a \u201chistoric moment\u201d for a \u201cnew phase in the enlargement policy\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is this new point of view that changes the tone in this year\u2019s North Macedonia Report, which otherwise has retained last year\u2019s structure, a large part of the content, and reiterates a large number of long-standing issues.<\/p>\n

The analysis of the Commission\u2019s[1]<\/a> assessment leads to two conclusions:<\/p>\n