Between 2020 and 2022 Serbian government managed to make formal progress in EU accession, opening a total of four chapters that comprise Cluster
4. This was lauded by both Serbian government and EU officials as a huge step forward and was seen as an impetus for further acceleration of progress. However, opening four chapters in 16 months is far from a stellar result for an EU accession frontrunner. There are important questions that
need to be answered. Are there any signs that the Serbian government is indeed more devoted to EU reforms? What is the quality of the reforms that enabled this progress? Was the constitutional reform, that led the member states to reward Serbia with new clusters after two years of stalemate, an important step forward for the rule of law in the country?