European Western Balkans

The Republic Srpska Referendum and the Bleak Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina

20 years after the end of the war in 1995, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is still marred by lack of political progress and stuck in the situation of stabile unresolvedness. [...]
South East Europe 2020 – A review of progress

Almost three years after adopting the South East Europe 2020 Strategy, the region is inching towards some of its 2020 targets. While the results have been mixed, efforts [...]
The Twilight of Balkan Democracy

The run-up to a series of elections in the Westerns Balkans is revealing a frightening reality. Nearly two decades since the end of the Yugoslav Wars (1991-2001), the [...]
Europe needs US to keep the peace in the Balkans

Op-Ed by Nikola Dimitrov and Florian Bieber from the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), originally published at [...]
Juratović: Politicians score cheap points by spreading hate between nations

Interview with Josip Juratović, member of the Bundestag and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) for Tanjug news [...]
Negotiations between Montenegro and the European Union: lack of will or lack of pressure?

Article by Jovana Marović, member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), Associate Fellow at Podgorica based-think tank Institute Alternative (Institut [...]
What awaits us in Chapters 23 and 24?

BELGRADE – “What is expected now is not essentially painstaking work, but something way more important – changes in mindset and thinking” – stressed Ms. Milica [...]
Srđan Cvijić: Civil society is a partner, not an adversary

Interview with Srđan Cvijić, analyst at Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels, for “Progovori o pregovorima” (Speak out about negotiations), a [...]
More than just opening chapters 23 and 24 – the importance of individual freedom and security

Author: Prof. dr Tanja Miščević, Head of the Negotiating Team for the Accession of the Republic of Serbia to the European [...]
EWB Interview, Gunther Krichbaum: Germany will not tolerate any false compromises

In an exclusive interview for European Western Balkans, Chairman of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union and member of the German Bundestag, talked [...]

The Republic Srpska Referendum and the Bleak Future of Bosnia and Herzegovina

South East Europe 2020 – A review of progress

The Twilight of Balkan Democracy

Europe needs US to keep the peace in the Balkans

Juratović: Politicians score cheap points by spreading hate between nations

Negotiations between Montenegro and the European Union: lack of will or lack of pressure?

What awaits us in Chapters 23 and 24?

Srđan Cvijić: Civil society is a partner, not an adversary

More than just opening chapters 23 and 24 – the importance of individual freedom and security

EWB Interview, Gunther Krichbaum: Germany will not tolerate any false compromises

Citizens voted “yes” in the Republika Srpska referendum

EWB Op-eds

South East Europe 2020 – A review of progress

The Twilight of Balkan Democracy

Negotiations between Montenegro and the European Union: lack of will or lack of pressure?

More than just opening chapters 23 and 24 – the importance of individual freedom and security

WB youth need to be fully integrated in the EU youth dimension

A. A. Pejović: Montenegro has crossed a considerable chunk of its European journey

Why Albania needs the judiciary reform

Young people are not our future, but our present

NATO Integrations for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s progress

“I’ll have what the UK is having” – Desire for EU referendum spreads from Britain across Europe

Journal of Western Balkans Politics

How the Western Balkans have become a touchstone for German and EU foreign policy

Balkan model of authoritarianism: 6 similarities between the regimes in Macedonia and Serbia

Dealing with the Past Necessary for Reconciliation in the Western Balkans

The Price of Peace: Lessons from Northern Ireland

South-eastern Europe’s descent into chaos

Bosnia-Herzegovina’s EU Candidacy: Symbolic or Substantive?

Western Balkan’s EU path: political and economic deadlocks

Kosovo’s political crisis suggests its citizens are no longer willing to accept large-scale electoral fraud

Report on Push backs and Police violence at the Serbo-Croatian border

EU and the Balkans – Battling for hearts and minds