Prof. Ingrid Shikova took part in the conference “The Importance of the Romanian rotational presidency of the Council of the EU for Serbia and the Western Balkans”
Prof. Ingrid Shikova took part in the conference “The Importance of the Romanian rotational presidency of the Council of the EU for Serbia and the Western Balkans”, organised by the Centre for Foreign Policy and Hanns Seidel Stiftung in Belgrade. She presented the results of the Bulgarian Presidency and discussed the perspectives for Serbia’s EU integration process in the panel “Serbia and the Western Balkans – the perspective of the presidencies of the neighboring countries Bulgaria and Croatia”. Among the participants in the event were the ambassadors of the three countries – Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia, diplomats, representatives of the non-governmental sector and the academia. The head of the negotiating team of Serbia to the EU also attended the conference.
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