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15 January 2024 Elvira Kovacs at the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union

15 January 2024 Elvira Kovacs at the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union

Monday, 15 January 2024

Elvira Kovacs Takes Part in COSAC Chairpersons’ Meeting

Elvira Kovacs, Chairperson of the National Assembly European Integration Committee, took part in the Meeting of the Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs of Parliaments of the European Union (COSAC), held on 15 January in Namur, Kingdom of Belgium.

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.

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36th Sitting of the European Integration Committee

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42nd Sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Monday, 20 April 2026

MP Ivana Stamatovic at Women Parliamentarians Forum at 152nd IPU Assembly

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  • 10.00 - continuation of the Second Sitting of the First Regular Session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in 2026 (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)

  • 10.30 - sitting of the Committee on the Economy, Regional Development, Trade, Tourism and Energy (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 11.00 - press conference of National Assembly Speaker Ana Brnabic (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 11.00 - sitting of the Foreign Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 12.00 - sitting of the Committee on Finance, State Budget and Control of Public Spending (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 12.30 - sitting of the Committee on Spatial Planning, Transport, Infrastructure and Telecommunications (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)

  • 13.00 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Small Hall)

  • 13.30 - sitting of the Committee on Constitutional and Legislative Issues (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

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