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Serbia officially applies for membership in the European Union. 14 June 2010: EU members decide to start SAA ratification process 31 January 2011: Serbia replies to Commission questionnaire 14 October 2011: European Commission delivers its Opinion on Serbia's EU membership application, granting candidate status based on one key priority. 1 ...
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed by the treaties to share their own sovereignty through the institutions of the European Union in certain aspects of government.
Specific Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) have been implemented with various Balkan countries which explicitly include provisions for future EU membership of the country involved. SAAs are similar in principle to the Europe Agreements signed with the Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s and to the Association ...
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday his country was unlikely to enter the European Union in 2028, a date targeted by some other western Balkan countries hoping to join the bloc.
With EU elections coming up in June, a survey commissioned by the European Parliament showed more than 70% of EU citizens believe they benefit from their country's membership in the European Union.
Prior to Cypriot accession to the EU in 2004, although the United Kingdom was an EU member at the time, EU law did not apply to the sovereign base areas. [71] This position was changed by the Cypriot accession treaty so that EU law, while still not applying in principle, applied to the extent necessary to implement a protocol attached to that ...
Serbia officially applied for membership in the European Union on 22 December 2009, [144] and received candidate status on 1 March 2012, following a delay in December 2011. [ 145 ] [ 146 ] Following a positive recommendation of the European Commission and European Council in June 2013, negotiations to join the EU commenced in January 2014.
China and European Union candidate Serbia signed an agreement on Wednesday to build a “shared future,” making the Balkan country the first in Europe to agree on such a document with Beijing.