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Serbia gets new government, Brnabić becomes PM
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The Serbian parliament on Thursday elected new PM Ana Brnabic’s government in a majority vote. A hundred and fifty-seven of the 212 MPs in attendance...
Russia to take hardline approach to Western Balkans?
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MOSCOW – Nikolai Platonovich Patrushev, one of the Vladimir Putin’s closest associates and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation is unofficially new Russia’s...
Montenegro opens chapters 1 and 22, closes 30
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LUXEMBOURG – The ninth meeting of the Accession Conference with Montenegro at ministerial level was held to open negotiations on chapter 1 – Free movement...
Serbia opens chapters 7 and 29
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LUXEMBOURG – The sixth meeting of the Accession Conference with Serbia at ministerial level was held Tuesday in Luxembourg to open negotiations on chapter 7...
Tactical Europeanisation: Why Serbia’s decision to appoint an openly gay PM is no great leap forward for LGBT rights
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Article by Koen Slootmaeckers, originally published at LSE’s EUROPP Blog. The original article can be found here....
[EWB Interview] Krumm: Serbia should be able to balance between EU and Russia
Interview with Reinhard Krumm, Head of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung’s Regional Office for Cooperation and Security in Europe in Vienna. Krumm was a speaker at the...
[EWB Interview] Potočnik: Enlargement policy is one of the most successful EU policies
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This time we spoke to Janez Potočnik who served as European Commissioner for Environment and former Minister for European Affairs of Slovenia. Potočnik headed the Negotiating...
Hahn: Stability can only be achieved with reforms in areas of rule of law, economy, governance
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BRUSSELS – EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn held Monday a press conference following his visit to Serbia and Montenegro last week. He said that stability can...
Uncompetitive markets pose a problem in the Western Balkans
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BRUSSELS – The Western Balkan economies are small and therefore face a difficult trade-off between achieving economies of scale and providing the necessary competition on...