EVER CHANGING EU ACCESSION NEGOTIATION PROCESS – THE CASE OF SERBIA –

MIŠČEVIĆ Tanja (Faculty of Political Science, Belgrade University),

Two parallel, but intrinsically intermingled processes today mark the process of the European integration of Serbia: the implementation of the obligations assumed under the Stabilisation and Association Agreement and the membership negotiations that should enable the adoption of all political, economic and legal obligations arising from European Union (EU) membership. But many other issues are of a grave importance in this process, many challenges which equally Serbia, as well as the EU, has to face. We argue that success of Serbia to meet all conditions for the EU membership is much more shaped by those challenges than by fulfillment of technical criteria

Keywords: European Union, accession negotiations, Member States, Rule of Law, conditionality, EU Enlargement Strategy