EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi told N1 that the European Commission’s annual report on candidate countries will be published in autumn instead in June as is usual.
He said the report would be published later in the year to enable the EC to have better insight into the progress in reforms in the Western Balkans countries “which slowed down due to need to answer the COVID-19 crisis.”
Varhelyi said the report should be presented in early September when, he added, the EC should also publish the investment plan for the region, but “that will depend on the EU budget in the next several years.”
