The EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans has got a new impetus with the formal Bosnia and Herzegovina EU membership application, but the path of reforms needed, in general terms, does not meet higher expectations. Coupled with external challenges in the form of primarily, though not only, migration crisis and EU enlargement fatigue, several Western Balkans countries are risking stagnation in their much-needed reform processes.

How can the Western Balkans retain reform momentum and accelerate the accession and reform process? And how does the EU's absorption capacity match these reform processes?

MODERATOR:
Christian Kvorning Lassen, EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy (http://www.europeum.org)

SPEAKERS:
Mr. Michal Šimečka, Institute of International Relations, Prague
(http://www.iir.cz/en/static/michal-simecka)

Ms. Ksenija Milenković, Head of Serbian European Integration Office, Belgrade
(http://www.seio.gov.rs/office.1347.html)