In February 2020, the European Commission launched and the Council endorsed the Communication for “Enhancing the accession process – a credible EU perspective for the Western
Balkans”. The aim of the document was to push forward the EU accession process with the countries of the Western Balkans thereby making the process more credible, realistic, dynamic and predictable. Besides the more technical approach towards advancing the Western Balkans, the enlargement process, according to the methodology, is seen as more political process steered into the direction of an “geopolitical investment into stable, strong and united Europe”
The revised methodology and the phasing-in approach with the countries of the Western Balkans.