More: Balkans
Kosovo’s North: A Victory with Uncertain Consequences
Kosovo's push to control the Serb-majority north has yielded a tactical victory but at a cost as well. While Pristina successfully dismantles the remaining...
Kosovo lets Bosnians in without a visa. Why won’t Bosnia return the favour?
As Kosovo lifts visa requirements for Bosnian citizens, allowing travel with just an ID card, Bosnia and Herzegovina is stuck in a political quagmire,...
EU Candidate countries are dreading the new European Commission
We now know President Ursula von der Leyen’s picks for the next EU commissioners, the key figures likely to shape the bloc’s executive direction...
Investing in Roma Communities: A Key to Solving the Workforce Crisis in the Western Balkans
The Western Balkans – Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina – stand at a crossroads, facing an acute shortage of...
A Crisis of Opportunity: Addressing the Root Causes of Emigration in the Western Balkans
Authors: Dr. Albana Shehaj and Dr. Valbona Zeneli
The Western Balkans (WB) have faced significant population losses due to emigration over the past decades. Countries...
Bosnia Without Bosnians: The Only Desirable Solution?
Pseudo-scientific pamphlets by itself would not deserve any attention or reaction: they are usually worthless mixtures of poor ignorance, anti-logical constructions, unargued insinuations, and...
Contradictions at the heart of an expanding Europe
Every new generation has refashioned the EU according to the politics of the age, notes Timothy Less, a lead researcher at the Centre for...
Enlarging the EU: Europe is going to “Sail on High Seas”
The newly released report by the German-French working group on EU institutional reform shows, the goal of the EU should be to get ready...
Fifth report on the EU visa-free regime with Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership countries
What is the Commission presenting today?
Today, the Commission reports on results of its monitoring of the EU visa-free regime with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,...
Western Balkans Need Policies that Protect Most Vulnerable, Reforms that Boost Growth
Economic performance in all six economies of the Western Balkans continues to be impacted by the ongoing war in Ukraine and resultant sharp increase...