The Centre for European Perspective in cooperation with the European Integration Office of Montenegro and structures in charge of coordinating European affairs from WB6, within the Regional Project for the Promotion of EU Integration funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), will organise the first in a series of panels/workshop as a contribution to the wider debate on a common European future. This event will be organized with the support of Slovenia as the country holding the presidency of the EU Council and strongly supporting the path of the Western Balkan countries towards EU membership. Finally, the joint conclusions from the first panel will be directed towards our European partners, primarily as a political message from the region on the commitment to the European integration process, on the one hand, and the voice of the Western Balkan countries in the Conference on the Future of Europe, on the other. Given the clear commitment of the political leaders of the Western Balkans to the future of this region in the European Union, the first panel is intended as a gathering place for relevant actors in charge of the European integration process at the level of Deputy Prime Ministers / Ministers for European Integration and Chief Negotiators from the Western Balkans, where the focus will be on the next steps in the European integration process, a possible common approach to specific topics and sectoral policies, as well as the existing challenges