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Balkan Mini-Schengen: A Well Thought Regional Initiative or a Political Stunt?

January 10, 2020• Foreign Policy

While the European Union and the US have welcomed this initiative, in the region itself such idea has from the beginning deeply divided the...

January 8, 2020• Uncategorized

Ardian Klosi Swiss born historian Oliver Jens Schmitt, currently working as a professor of the History of Southeastern Europe in the Vienna...

December 27, 2019• Featured, Foreign Policy

Any discussion about Serbia-Kosovo relations has to take into account the international context and interests of some global players that...

December 27, 2019• Democracy

If succeeds to negotiate a coalition, Albin Kurti will govern Kosovo with needs to resolve an old and complex agenda. Kurti won the polls...

November 15, 2019• Foreign Policy

The initiative of establishing a Western Balkans Schengen, or as commonly referred ‘mini-Schengen’ launched by Albania, North Macedonia...

November 14, 2019• EU Integration

--The EU Council did not announce a date for the beginning of accesson negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia. --France's new...

November 12, 2019• Foreign Policy

Franz-Lothar Altmann Improved cooperation in the Balkans is an ever repeated demand voiced from outside, the EU in particular, but also...

September 25, 2019• Foreign Policy

The following is taken from a report that the American Head of Mission, Jacobs, sent to US State Department in 1945 prior to the official...

September 18, 2019• Uncategorized

L. Tzounis One essential point must be grasped in order to understand the external economic relations of Albania: from the establishment of...

September 3, 2019• Uncategorized

The Western Balkans Summit, the highest level convention of the Berlin process this year was organized in Poznan. ...