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Serbia

Serbia is an official candidate for membership of the European Union.

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  • Candidate country

Relationship with the EU

  1. 22 December 2009Applied for membership
  2. 1 March 2012Candidate status granted
  3. 21 January 2014Accession negotiations opened

Data

GDP per capita in purchasing power standards52

Eurostat, 2025. Scale 0 to 260.

Milestones

Serbian is written in both Cyrillic and Latin scripts in everyday use; Cyrillic is the official script.

  1. 3 April 2003Joins the Council of Europe. archive.org
  2. June 2003Identified as a potential candidate for EU membership (Thessaloniki European Council). enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  3. 22 December 2009Applies for EU membership. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  4. March 2012Granted EU candidate status. enlargement.ec.europa.eu
  5. 21 January 2014First intergovernmental conference: EU accession negotiations start. enlargement.ec.europa.eu

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