This was supposed to have been a decisive year for the Western Balkans region on its journey towards EU accession. The strategy paper launched by the European Commission...
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina have signed a 180 million euro loan deal for the construction of...
The president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, has for the first time suggested that redrawing the country’s borders to bring parts of Serbia with a majority Albanian population...
NATO continues to expand its reach throughout emerging Europe. The alliance is set to open an airbase in Albania, which will be NATO’s first in the Western Balkans. The...
Young Bulgarian professionals and students from across the world are working on a new vision of their country. Bulgarian society has experienced great socio-economic...
The emphasis on the European perspectives of the Western Balkans was the signature achievement of the first Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, according to...
The London summit on the Western Balkans which took place on July 9 and 10 was another event that, as part of the Berlin Process, reiterated the EU’s commitment to the...
Fifteen years ago, during the EU summit in Thessaloniki in 2003, EU leaders promised the Balkan countries that the door to EU membership would be open to them. Today...
Innovation in Slovenia has increased moderately increased since 2010, enough to put the country amongst the strongest innovators in the EU, together with Austria...
The recent EU summit in Sofia, which discussed potential enlargement of the EU to include the Western Balkan states, also revealed the depth of the growing relationship...
The EU Summit on the Western Balkans, held in Sofia on May 17, was meant to be the showpiece event of Bulgaria’s presidency of the European Union. In the end, it made...
The need to strengthen and improve regional economic cooperation within the Western Balkans has been set as a priority both by the European Union and the Western Balkans...
