Serbia seeks solution for its oil industry as deadline looms
Authors: Igor Novaković, Senior Associate at ISAC and Marko Savković, Senior Advisor at ISAC After years of empty talk about how Serbia will finally make...
Author : Group of authors
A liveable Europe, retrieving the hopes of the youth
When Brexit struck, Laura was too young to vote. Eight years have passed, but she still remembers the morning the results were published. That day,...
Enlargement without State Capture: A Call for Action for the Next European Commission
By: Daniela Mineva, Senior Analyst, Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD); Boyko Todorov, Senior Associate Fellow at CSD; Ruslan Stefanov, Program Director and Chief Economist at CSD...
Transforming the Western Balkans: Trade, Energy, and Mobility as Catalysts for Growth
By: Kristina Milošević, Migena Kalthi, Mona Xhexhaj, and Nikola Nešić The Western Balkans do not enjoy a good image in the EU, especially in the...
Great Expectations: Europe is looking for the new Commissioner for Enlargement
This piece was originally published on BiEPAG blog. By Jovana Marović and Srđan Cvijić Two European Commissions have completed their mandates without enlargement in sight and no...
BiEPAG reacts: EU’s decision to open accession talks with BiH could help silence secessionist rhetoric
The European Union agreed to open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, eight years after country first applied for EU membership. Last week European Commission said BiH...
The Commission’s important but flawed Growth Plan for the Western Balkans
By: Florian Bieber, Nikola Dimitrov, and Michael Emerson In its ‘Enlargement Package’ of November 2023 the European Commission published a significant new Growth Plan initiative...
Towards a more equal and democratic Europe
Today, Europe’s democratic future is being defended in the trenches in Ukraine. Amidst the war, granting candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova was one of...
2023 European Commission Report on North Macedonia: Put your reforms where your mouth is!
Authors: Nikola Dimitrov and Zoran Nechev This piece was originally published on BiEPAG blog. The 2023 EU Commission report on North Macedonia is one of...
European Commission country reports need more consistency in assessing democratic institutions
By European Policy Centre (CEP) (Strahinja Subotic, Programme Manager and Senior Researcher & Milos Pavkovic, Researcher) The European Commission’s country reports on the state of...