In this Occasional Paper the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs brings together into a single document the economic chapters of the 2013 European Commission's Progress Reports for candidate countries and potential candidates for EU accession. The Commission prepared Progress Reports for the candidate countries the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey as well as for the potential candidates Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. The European Commission adopted the Progress Reports on 16 October 2013.