This year, the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) marks 10 years of active efforts to bring the region closer to the European Union and support the capacity-building of the region’s countries for membership. Over the past decade, BiEPAG has strived to advance its main goal through research, advocacy, and policy recommendations. From the very beginning, its members have been directly or indirectly involved in all processes related to European integration and the democratization of the region.
About how the enlargement policy has changed over the past ten years, the state of democracy in the region, and BiEPAG’s contribution during the previous decade, we spoke with Aleksandra Tomanić, Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans, which, together with the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz (CSEES Graz), launched BiEPAG in 2014.
