At the session dedicated to the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the EU, Elvira Kovacs pointed out that Belgium, as the country presiding in the first half of 2024, set the priorities in the most correct way, but as she added, the policy of enlargement is equally important as the other already established priorities. Serbia is solidly on the path to EU integration, said Elvira Kovacs, drawing attention to the fact that Serbia has harmonised its domestic legislation to a good extent with the EU acquis and should therefore be included in the European single market and existing common economic and trade policies. She said that we are aware that the geostrategic context in the world has changed in the last two years, adding that Serbia will continue to gradually harmonise its foreign and security policy with the EU policies, to make sure it is be fully aligned by the end of the negotiation process. At the end of her presentation at the first session, she expressed her hope that Belgium, as the presiding country and one of the founding countries of the EU, will recognise the issue of enlargement as a necessary quality of EU integration and part of the identity of the EU project itself.

At the third session, dedicated to the issue of EU enlargement, Elvira Kovacs expressed her satisfaction that this topic was included as one of the main topics of the COSAC meeting. She said that the issue of further enlargement loses the option to further mobilise the people of the Western Balkans because the concrete positive results of the individual candidate states are not always recognised or valorised. The more the EU reforms, the more predictable the future of the Western Balkans will be, said Elvira Kovacs. She added that if you take into account the time that has passed, the same time during which nothing has changed in the EU integration process itself, it feeds Euroscepticism and further alienates the citizens of the Western Balkans from the idea of the EU.

"It is high time to return to the fundamental values of the EU and remind the citizens of the Western Balkans why the policy of further enlargement of the EU is strategically important, to remind them that the enlargement of the EU is an investment in peace, democracy, prosperity and security, both in the Western Balkans and in the whole of Europe" Elvira Kovacs concluded at the end of her presentation.