REPORT: EU-Western Balkans Summit –The Morning After

Our Jana Juzová, Alexandra Ilková, and Ondřej Pešek collaborated on the report of EU-Western Balkans Summit and its consequences. The conference took place in Carolinum on November 5, 2021. The speakers discussed relations between the European Union and Western Balkans and ways how to get the EU enlargement agenda back on track from the state of a deep crisis.

In general, speakers agreed that the Western Balkan
countries  are  an  integral  part  of  Europe  and  their
future inside the European Union needs to be further
discussed and worked towards. However, there are
still  many  areas  that  complicate  the  process  –
primarily the fulfillment of the Copenhagen criteria
and the threatened security and stability in the region.

Read the whole report under the PDF button. 

Jana Juzová
Senior Research Fellow

Expertise: regionalism, Visegrad cooperation, democratization and European integration of the Western Balkan countries, EU enlargement

Alexandra Ilková
Associate Fellow