National Convention on the European Union (NCEU)
November 2026.
The Convention’s working groups assessed the status of 130 recommendations from the previous Book. Eight have been fulfilled. Sixty-one have been partially fulfilled, and the same number have not been fulfilled at all. Some recommendations we have been repeating for eight or ten years. This does not mean that we lack new ideas, but that no one has yet responded to the old ones.
We are publishing the 2026 Book of Recommendations at a moment that can, without exaggeration, be called historic. In the early parliamentary elections held in Serbia on 25 October, turnout reached around 69 per cent, the highest since 1992, and citizens voted out a government that had ruled Serbia for more than a decade. That change did not begin at the polling stations. It began on 1 November 2024, under the canopy of the railway station in Novi Sad, and continued through two years of blockades, protests and civic organising on a scale Serbia had never seen. People who for years believed that nothing could change showed that change is not only possible, but that its strength comes from the citizens themselves.
This year, the citizens of Serbia have shown that change is not a matter of luck, but of persistence. The same holds true for European integration. The new government inherits everything its predecessor left undone, but it also receives a roadmap that has already been written. That roadmap contains obligations and recommendations, mistakes that must not be repeated and experience that must not be discarded. That roadmap is now before you. It is up to us to insist that the journey along it finally begins. (…)
