The European Commission will unveil its new EU Enlargement Strategy on February 6th, 2018. Since relations with Turkey have deteriorated markedly, only the Western Balkan states remain candidates for EU membership. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, has stated the European Commission’s intention to ensure that the Western Balkan countries are on an “irreversible” track to membership in the Union before the end of its mandate in 2019. Unless the new Enlargement Strategy offers a realistic plan to tackle the lack of economic growth and social progress in the region, it will be another futile institutional exercise because democracy, the rule of law and other basic distinctions of "Europeann...
After the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the process of European integration has advance...
By the time of the simultaneous collapses of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Un...
Key points for policymakers 2018 was dominated by deep divisions among the EU member states despite ...
Given its geographical location, the region is important to the EU in terms of security, stability, ...
Six states in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro a...
With no real progress in EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, or effective solutions to deal with ...
The EU-Western Balkans summit held on 17 May in Sofia – the first such event since 2003 – is one exa...
The EU seeks to transform the domestic structures of the Western Balkan countries in order to foster...
For half a century, European Union-(EU) has pursued ever-deeper integration while taking in new memb...
After years of taking the Western Balkan region for granted, the EU has woken up to the dramatic det...
As the leadership of the European Union hands over the baton to a new management this autumn, will t...
Pending clarification of further enlargement prospects for the whole of the Western Balkans, Michael...
The Western Balkans, a region that continues to produce more history than it can absorb, needs caref...
This paper addresses the problems of the current process of and prospects for further post-communis...
The European Union perceives itself as a successful model for regional integration which it seeks to...
After the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the process of European integration has advance...
By the time of the simultaneous collapses of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Un...
Key points for policymakers 2018 was dominated by deep divisions among the EU member states despite ...
Given its geographical location, the region is important to the EU in terms of security, stability, ...
Six states in the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro a...
With no real progress in EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, or effective solutions to deal with ...
The EU-Western Balkans summit held on 17 May in Sofia – the first such event since 2003 – is one exa...
The EU seeks to transform the domestic structures of the Western Balkan countries in order to foster...
For half a century, European Union-(EU) has pursued ever-deeper integration while taking in new memb...
After years of taking the Western Balkan region for granted, the EU has woken up to the dramatic det...
As the leadership of the European Union hands over the baton to a new management this autumn, will t...
Pending clarification of further enlargement prospects for the whole of the Western Balkans, Michael...
The Western Balkans, a region that continues to produce more history than it can absorb, needs caref...
This paper addresses the problems of the current process of and prospects for further post-communis...
The European Union perceives itself as a successful model for regional integration which it seeks to...
After the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the process of European integration has advance...
By the time of the simultaneous collapses of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Un...
Key points for policymakers 2018 was dominated by deep divisions among the EU member states despite ...