What Europe can do for the Western Balkans

The author argued that it was high time for the EU to move beyond ‘stabilocracy’ and stand up to ethnic nationalist kleptocrat political leaders in the states of the Western Balkans.

The EU cannot assume that business as usual will provide stability in the Balkans. That wwould require marrying the accession tools with economic ambition and political clarity.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Return to instability: How migration and great power politics threaten the Western Balkans (ECFR: Policy Brief, March 2016) http://www.europeansources.info/record/return-to-instability-how-migration-and-great-power-politics-threaten-the-western-balkans/

ESO: Background information: The Berlin Process and the Trieste summit 2017 (EPRS: At a Glance, July 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-berlin-process-and-the-trieste-summit-2017/

ESO: Background information: How structural reforms and European integration can help aid the convergence of Western Balkan states with the EU (EuroppBlog, July 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/how-structural-reforms-and-european-integration-can-help-aid-the-convergence-of-western-balkan-states-with-the-eu/

ESO: Background information: West is best: How ‘stabilitocracy’ undermines democracy building in the Balkans (EuroppBlog, May 2017) http://www.europeansources.info/record/west-is-best-how-stabilitocracy-undermines-democracy-building-in-the-balkans/

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