European Committee of the Regions sets out recommendations to deepen and accelerate enlargement process in the Western Balkans.
The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has urged the European Union to focus more sharply on the local and regional level of government in the Western Balkans as the prospects of countries in the region becoming members of the EU rise.
In an opinion adopted on 17 April, EU local and regional leaders emphasised “the utmost importance” of EU funding to improve the capacity of local and regional administrations, and called for more calibrated measures of progress in public-administration reforms as…