Progress towards meeting the economic criteria for EU accession: the EU Commission’s 2012 assessments

In this Occasional Paper the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs brings together into a single document the economic chapters of the 2012 European Commission's Progress Reports for candidate countries and potential candidates for EU accession, of the Comprehensive Monitoring Report (CMR) on Croatia as well as of the Feasibility Study on a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU for Kosovo*. The Commission prepared Progress Reports for the candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro and Turkey as well as for the potential candidates Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The European Commission adopted these Progress Reports, the CMR on Croatia and the Feasibility study on Kosovo* on 10 October 2012.