The Stabilization and Association Process: An Engine of European Integration in Need of Tuning
Publisher: ECMI Volume: 19 pages, pdf Description: The rationale for the creation of this process was the recognition that the countries in the region referred to as the Western Balkans (the former Yugoslavia plus Albania) needed a solid and realistic perspective in order to be motivated to carry out the vast number of reforms that the EU expected of them. This could only be the possible and conditional accession to the Union. Each of the countries in to the SAp has the ultimate and expressed goal of joining the European Union. This goal has been acknowledged subsequently by several European Councils.