The Price of Peace: Lessons from Northern Ireland
Many have tried to explain frequent violent ethnic conflicts in the Balkans as something stemming from the region’s culture and specific ethno-cultural complexity. While this...
Category : Analyses
South-eastern Europe’s descent into chaos
by EWB Archives
There is razor wire fence on the border between Slovenia and Croatia, the only two former Yugoslav republics that have managed to formally enter the...
Bosnia-Herzegovina’s EU Candidacy: Symbolic or Substantive?
by EWB Archives
Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) has officially submitted an application for membership to the European Union (EU). The move marks the culmination of a two decades long process...
Western Balkan’s EU path: political and economic deadlocks
by EWB Archives
Only the European Union can enable Russia and Turkey to gain true influence in the Western Balkans – but if it continues to procrastinate, EU...
Kosovo’s political crisis suggests its citizens are no longer willing to accept large-scale electoral fraud
by EWB Archives
Kosovo is no longer at war, but deeply entrenched problems persist. Andrea Lorenzo Capussela warns that socio-economic issues are now at risk of turning into...
Report on Push backs and Police violence at the Serbo-Croatian border
by EWB Archives
BERLIN – Moving Europe Project published a report on police violence on the Croatia-Serbia border. The report is a product of the observations, conversations and interviews conducted by independent...
EU and the Balkans – Battling for hearts and minds
by EWB Archives
The end of the conflict in Yugoslavia and attempts to stabilize the region brought the perspective of European Union membership in all successor states. Process...
Experts react: EU progress reports 2015
by EWB Archives
On 10 November, a month later than usual, the European Commission released its annual reports on the progress achieved by EU candidate and potential candidate...
Judy Dempsey: The Western Balkans’ Long March to Europe
by EWB Archives
“You can’t imagine how serious it has become in the Western Balkans,” said Sonja Licht, the indefatigable president of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence,...
Small steps and (not so) great expectations. Notes from the Vienna Summit
by EWB Archives
The Vienna summit could not address the creeping authoritarianism in the region, but when Gruevski scored two goals in the football game of politicians from...