Pyke Haans is a student of Human Geography at Radboud University in the Netherlands and has nurtured an interest in the politics and cultures of the Western Balkans in particular. He has previously worked on research in North Macedonia and is currently finishing his thesis on the Macedonian consociationalist system and consociationalism as a method of conflict resolution.
The positions of the Western Balkan and Eastern-European candidate states on metrics like corruption and democracy show that there is still a long way to go in many...