On 18 June 2019, Lucia Kroon (Netherlands, L, EPP/CCE), Congress co-rapporteur on local and regional democracy in Serbia, participated in the meeting of the Joint Consultative Committee on Serbia organised by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels on the eve of its 5th Enlargement Day plenary session.
Ms Kroon contributed to the thematic debate on the rule of law in Serbia from a local and regional perspective. She focused on the state of implementation by Serbia of the European Charter of Local Self-Government in light of the Congress recommendation on local and regional democracy in Serbia.
The rapporteur underlined the need to pursue local self-government reform and decentralisation in order to align the Serbian system of local and regional self-government with the European standards in the context of Serbia’s European integration.