The Inclusion of the RECOM Initiative in the European Commission’s Reports and EU Enlargement Strategies

On October 12^th, 2011, the European Commission published a document titled 2011 – 2012 Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges in the Region of the Former Yugoslavia, describing the RECOM Initiative (Paragraph 2.3) as extremely significant for the process of regional reconciliation. In addition, in its accompanying progress reports on Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo, the European Commission emphasized the RECOM Initiative as an integral part of the EU integration process of the region’s states.

The European Commission stated its continued support for the RECOM Process in its 2013 EU Integration Progress Report on Serbia. In a document titled 2013 – 2014 Enlargement Strategy and Main Challenges (SERBIA 2013 progress report), published on October 16^th 2013, the EC also welcomed a meeting of presidential envoys to RECOM, the first of its kind.