The Nanovic Institute is pleased to announce the publication of “The Road to Europe: Exploring European Union Candidacy in the Western Balkans.” This report, funded by the Institute, is the result of collaborative research and writing by five undergraduate students at the University of Notre Dame. The students undertook this project as research assistants for the Nanovic Institute over the 2021 summer break and studied the candidacy of six Western Balkan states—the Republics of Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Bosnia.