This chapter analyses the EU’s crisis response in the Western Balkans through the lens of EULEX. By exploring how those […]
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Tag: Western Balkans
“Countering the Rule of Law Backsliding in the Western Balkans”, Katrin Böttger, Dominic Maugeais (OEGFE, Austria)
Seventeen years after the big round of EU enlargement and with the Conference on the Future of Europe up and […]
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“China in the Western Balkans: geopolitics with Chinese characteristics?”, Tamás Peragovics and Ágnes Szunomár (IWE CERS, Hungary)
China’s role as a global investor and financier has grown rapidly in recent decades, including in Europe. From German robot […]
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“In Search of EU Strategic Autonomy: What Role for the Western Balkans”, Matteo Bonomi (IAI, Italy)
There is a danger today that the window of opportunity for proceeding towards the political and territorial unification of Europe, […]
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“Six Principles to Guide EU Action in the Western Balkans”, Majda Ruge (IAI, Italy)
Amid uncertainty about future EU enlargement prospects and the US’s continued shift towards the Indo-Pacific, one of the few axioms […]
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“Western Balkans’ Plight is Wake-up Call for Europe”, Vedran Džihić and Paul Schmidt (ÖGFE, Austria)
The coronavirus pandemic has deepened the vulnerabilities of the Western Balkan countries and exposed the weakness of their state institutions, […]
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“The Plight of the Western Balkans Is a Wake-up Call for Europe”, Vedran Džihić and Paul Schmidt (IAI, Italy)
In societies devastated by the pandemic, the EU needs to leave its conventional tool-box behind and urgently speed up the […]
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“Money, power, glory: the linkages between EU conditionality and state capture in the Western Balkans”, Solveig Richter & Natasha Wunsch
“Money, power, glory: the linkages between EU conditionality and state capture in the Western Balkans”, Solveig Richter & Natasha Wunsch […]
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“Where to now for Enlargement? Key Challenges for Western Balkans’ accession into a Brexiting European Union”, Florent Marciacq (CIFE, France)
“Where to now for Enlargement? Key Challenges for Western Balkans’ accession into a Brexiting European Union”, Marciacq Florent, Policy Paper […]
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Visit to Natolin by Ministers for European Integration from the Western Balkans (College of Europe Natolin)
Visit to Natolin by Ministers for European Integration from the Western Balkans On Friday, 15 January 2019, the College of […]
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“The Western Balkans and the European Union Moving? In the right direction?”, Matteo Bonomi (CIFE, France)
“After years of sluggish progress, the first half of 2018 has been characterised by renewed initiatives for EU enlargement. On […]
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“Chips off the Old Block: Europeanisation of the Foreign Policies of Western Balkan States”, Ana Bojinović Fenko & Bernhard Stahl (CIR, Slovenia)
Palgrave Macmillan published a new book titled ‘The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality?’ (editors: Jelena […]
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TEPSA Explainer: “The new Austrian Government & EU integration and the upcoming EU-Council Presidency of Austria”, Paul Schmidt (ÖGFE, Austria)
This TEPSA Explainer discusses the political priorities of the Austrian Government in light of the upcoming Council Presidency and of […]
Read more“Do Western Balkans face a coming Russian storm?”, Mark Galeotti (IIR, Czech Republic)
New ECFR report by Mark Galeotti focusing on possibility of launch of a renewed Russian campaign in the Balkans in […]
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China’s Balkans Silk Road: Does it pave or block the way of Western Balkans to the European Union?, Magda Stumvoll, Tobias Flessenkemper (CIFE)
in: Policy Paper 66, February 2018 Read it here
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Containing the Refugee Crisis: How the EU Turned the Balkans and Turkey into an EU Borderland, Jonathan Zaragoza-Cristiani (IAI, Italy)
in: “The International Spectator”, 52:4 The events that took place during the 2015-16 refugee crisis in the southeastern EU region boosted […]
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Resilience in the Western Balkans, Sabina Lange (ed.) (EIPA, Maastricht)
Resilience in the Western Balkans, Edited by: Sabina Kajnč Lange, Zoran Nechev, Florian Trauner According to the 2016 EU Global […]
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The Western Balkans in the European Union: perspectives of a Region in Europe? A Contribution to the Trieste Summit on the Western Balkans, Matteo Bonomi (IAI, Italy and CIFE)
This research paper by Matteo Bonomi derives from the Reflection Forum on the run-up to the Summit of Trieste on the […]
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Industrial relations in Croatia and impacts of digitalization on the labor market, V. Samardžija, H. Butković and I. Skazlić (IRMO, Croatia)
This book is a result of research activities carried out in Croatia within the project ‘Industrial relations in Central and […]
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Slovenia and the European Union, Ana Bojinović Fenko and Marjan Svetličič (CIR, Slovenia)
The chapter in a new Oxford University Press encyclopaedia offers an all-encompassing literature review of Slovenian EU-engagement from the Yugoslav […]
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The Western Balkans in the European Union: Enlargement to What, Accession to What?, Eleonora Poli (IAI, Italy)
This report summarizes the proceedings of the international conference organized in Rome on 5 April 2017 by the Istituto Affari […]
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The Rise of Direct Democracy in Croatia: Balancing or Challenging Parliamentary Representation? Hrvoje Butković (IRMO, Croatia)
Starting from theoretical notions, this paper analyses the practice of direct democracy in selected transitional countries, which could be instructive […]
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Passing the “hot potatoes”: Croatia and Slovenia as transit countries in the European migration and refugee crisis, Maja Bučar and Marko Lovec (CIR, Slovenia)
The European Institute of the Mediterranean published a Joint Policy Study ‘Mapping Migration Challenges in the EU Transit and Destination […]
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A Comparative Perspective on Institutional Quality in Countries at Different Stages of European Integration, Will Bartlett, Nevenka Čučković and Krešimir Jurlin (IRMO, Croatia)
The paper investigates changes in institutional quality in countries at different stages of European integration over the seven-year period from […]
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Small states and parliamentary diplomacy: Slovenia and the Mediterranean, Zlatko Šabič, Ana Bojinović Fenko and Petra Roter (CIR, Slovenia)
The article contributes to the scholarship on parliamentary diplomacy in the Mediterranean region through the lens of a small state: […]
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