Serbia opens chapters 17 and 18 in Brussels

At the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels, held on Monday, December 10, Serbia opened two new chapters in the accession negotiations with the EU, namely, Chapter 17 – Economic and Monetary Policy and Chapter 18 – Statistics.

The Intergovernmental Conference began at 3 pm at the new building of the Council of the EU.

The delegation of Serbia at the Intergovernmental Conference was headed by Minister of European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic.

In addition to the heads of EU diplomacies, the opening was attended by Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations .

With these two chapters, Serbia has so far opened a total of 16 chapters, whereas two are temporarily closed.

Ministarstvo za evropske integracije Republike Srbije

Ministry of European Negotiations

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Jadranka Joksimovic

opening of the chapters

Johannes Hahn