western balkans

In the next entry of the Eastern Monitor series, our Marko Stojić deals with European Commission's reports on the Western Balkans and the potential candidate countries from the area.

Gentiola Madhi, Jana Juzová, Tomáš Strážay, Adam Balcer, Jelica Minić and Nikolett Garai authored a policy paper on the topic of reconciliation in the Western Balkans.

Our Alexandr Lagazzi and Michal Vít, in a joint policy paper, present a year-long reflection on Chinese foreign policy and backdoor-deals diplomacy in the Western Balkans. Analysing the implementation of Chinese-backed investment projects in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the paper suggests the impact of Chinese influence in the region.

Gentiola Madhi authored, within the Think Visegrad Non-V4 Fellowship programme, an analysis on the state of the affairs of regional cooperation in the Western Balkans.

Jana Juzová, as part of the project Think Visegrad, published a policy brief on the role of the V4 group in the Western Balkans.

We are proud to announce that we will be organizing the project ''From Warsaw to Tirana: Overcoming the past together'', supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

Our Jana Juzová commented for Euractiv.cz on future EU enlargement after Brexit.

We would like to cordially invite you to the conference "Western Balkans: Regional Cooperation, Enlargement and the Role of V4" which will take place on October 31, 2018 from 16:00 to 18:30 at the European House.

How to tackle the issue with returning foreign fighters? Our Christian Kvorning contributed to the new IFAT publication with a chapter about the Aarhus model.

Our Laura Skana summarized the EU enlargement policy towards the Western Balkans.

The report from the conference ''Echoes of the EU – Western Balkans Summit: New beginning'', which took place on May 23, 2018 in Brussels, is now available.

MEPs, the European Commission and experts discussed the EU enlargement process and the impact and substantial changes of the Sofia EU-Western Balkans Summit.