Avoiding the Trap of Another Paper Exercise: Why the Western Balkans Need a Human Development-centred EU Enlargement Model
The European Commission intends to publish a new methodology for the EU enlargement in the Western Balkans in early 2020. While the hope is that the new document will re-establish EU consensus on enlargement and revive its exhausted policy toward the Western Balkan region, there are already clear signs that it will all end up as another paper-pushing exercise. Without tackling the root causes of the current situation, notably the enduring socio-economic entropy and political backsliding in the Western Balkans, this new move will only diminish the leverage of the EU. What is needed is a human development-centred EU enlargement model for the Western Balkans.
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Rome, IAI, January 2020, 13 p. -
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20|04 -
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978-88-9368-124-7
1. EU enlargement in the Western Balkans: Brain-dead aussi?
2. Killing the Western Balkans softly with EU love
3. A human development-centred EU enlargement model for the Western Balkans vs. continued entropy
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