March 12 (SeeNews) - Serbia hopes to open up to three new chapters in its EU accession talks by the end of June, EU integration minister Jadranka Joksimovic has said.
"We think that by the end of June we will have an intergovernmental meeting and that we will open two or three chapters," Joksimovic said in a press release issued by the EU integration ministry on Monday.
In December, Serbia opened Chapter 17 - Economic and Monetary Policy, and Chapter 18 - Statistics.
The European Commission started negotiations with Serbia on the country's accession to the bloc in January 2014. Serbia has opened 16 chapters in the accessions process thus far, and has closed two - Science and Research, and Education and Culture.