The European Commission is renewing its push to open Serbia's accession clusters, arguing that Belgrade has made sufficient progress on a range of reforms to justify advancing its EU membership bid.
Ahead of a discussion among EU ambassadors on Wednesday, the Commission has presented member states with an information note outlining why it believes Cluster 3 should be opened after Serbia reversed controversial judicial reforms and made what Brussels describes as progress on media freedom, electoral reforms and alignment with the bloc's foreign and security policy.