This study aims to analyze the attitudes of Western Balkans regarding Euro-peanization under the headings of identity, security, and foreign policy. While benefiting from studies in the field, the research is based on interviews with 11 participants from vari-able occupational groups, such as academicians, civil society representatives, and resear-chers from six countries and various ethnic and religious backgrounds. The interviews are understood to reveal a difference between Europeanization and integration into the EU, although each country has its responses regarding EU membership. The issue of identity is observed to have come to the fore concerning security and foreign policy. Nevertheless, countries’ interests and regional relations, the presence of foreign powers, and conformity with EU policies become more self-evident with regard to security and foreign policy. Despi-te all the uncertainities, Western Balkans agree on full membership, especially with regard to the prospect of economic development and political stability. Despite Europeanization being accepted in terms of fulfilling the criteria, a distance occurs between EU criteria and Europeanization when addressing identity and the values around identity. While full comp-liance with the EU criteria cannot be mentioned regarding security and foreign policy, EU compliance is achievable in various areas of regional relations. However, deciding whether Europeanization occurs is not possible solely within the framework of membership criteria. The fact that the institutions of the member states have already become Europeanized and have had a European identity for a sufficient period cannot prevent them from displaying different responses in certain areas. Therefore, how many of the problems of the Western Balkans will be answered by entering the EU is not yet known.