Stages and integration challenges en bloc or mini EU?
Publisher: Friedrich Ebert Stifung , Prishtina
Volume: 15 pages, pdf
Description
Various international organizations perceive the Western Balkan countries’ are at some point in a similar socio-political terms as well as in terms of democratic consolidation of institutions and society with one another. Evaluation and analysis of the challenges faced by these countries in terms of meeting the Copenhagen criteria would constitute a solid base for the institutions in Brussels to increase efforts (as proclaimed at the Summit of Berlin and Vienna) for nancing inter-state projects, specifcally in infrastructure and energy, so that the joint efforts to overcome the bilateral problems are eased. The recent initiative taken by the Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz about intensifying efforts while in his tour in the Western Balkans, symbolizes the importance that the region be energized in this regard.