Alexandra Voudouri

12.02.21

Alexandra Voudouri This year Greece will celebrate its 40th anniversary as a member of one of the strongest clubs in the world, the European Union. Greece’s European journey has been quite bumpy and brought the country to the edge of an exit from the Union. Learning...

Radosveta Vassileva

10.02.21

Radosveta Vassileva In 2007, we were so happy and proud to be finally in that mythological space, this pretentious club for the chosen ones known as the EU. Thirteen years after accession, however, this European dream looks more like a nightmare. In the late 1990s and...

Alfonc Rakaj

08.02.21

Alfonc Rakaj However tempting or justifiable it may be, Mr. Rama and his regional colleagues would do well not to bite on the hand that “feeds” their people, invest in their future and build their schools. The public spillover of criticism towards the EU marks a...

Butrint Berisha

05.02.21

Butrint Berisha EU’s internal political developments, led to its inability to implement a consistent and cohesive policy towards Kosovo, which has been demonstrated in the case of the visa liberalization. Currently Kosovo is the only country in the region which is...

Malinka Ristevska Jordanova

03.02.21

Malinka Ristevska Jordanova Ultimately, we should acknowledge that the EU cannot simply come up with a recipe that will grant us a better life. We must have our own vision and our own plan. Some fifteen years ago, while talking to another veteran in the EU integration...

Dina Bajramspahić

01.02.21

Dina Bajramspahic In 2020, none of the six countries of the Western Balkans has made progress in the process of European integration. It is true that they could have done more, but this still begs the question of whether the process itself “is working” if...

Katarina Tadic

29.01.21

Katarina Tadic Serbia started negotiations back in 2014, yet today the country seems further from the EU than it was five years ago. The accession of the Western Balkans to the European Union (EU) has been ongoing for eighteen years, since the distant 2003, when all...

Vladimir Djordjevic

22.01.21

Vladimir Djordjević It is no wonder that citizens have little trust in the state institutions when they know that informal practices may actually assist them in resolving the issues they face when dealing with formal state institutions and their rules and norms. In my...

Karolina Ristova Aasterud

20.01.21

The blog is part of the joint Res Publica and Project Syndicate publication, “The Pandemic of Fear”. Prof. Karolina Ristova – Aasterud Ph.D. The critical minority does not view 2020 just as a year that brought us the pandemics but also as a year that brought...

Kaan Bayırakoşan

15.01.21

Kaan Bayırakoşan The Turkish government has new demands from social media and digital platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Twitter. If those platforms do not fulfill the requirements, they can be shut down by the government. 2021 will be the year we...