A N A LY S I S DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS SERBIA’S PROGRESS IN EU INTEGRATION 2020-2022 Constitutional Changes the Only Step Forward? There was a stalemate in Serbia’s EU accession process from December 2019 to December 2021, during which time no chapters or clusters were opened or provisionally closed After a delay of four years and a failed attempt in 2017-2018, constitutional reform in area of judiciary was enacted in 2021 and confirmed on the 16 January 2022 referendum Nikola Burazer, Jovana Spremo, Sofija Popović May 2022 Largely due to the constitu­tional reform, EU member states decided in December 2021 to open“green” Cluster 4 with Serbia, despite lack of progress regarding political criteria