... efforts to create a “Kosovo army”. Contrary to 1244 provisions this intention is supported by some EU countries. There are no guarantees that the so-called “armed forces”, consisting mainly of the “KLA” terrorists, will not be used against the Serbian population in the north of the region in the future.
We support the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue under the auspices of the European Union with the aim to resolve the Kosovo problem. We hope that EU will perform its mediating functions in bona-fide way.
We believe that the key to successful progress on this track is the implementation of decisions already agreed by the parties,...
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How to Develop Bosnia
William Eggerton:
Serbia’s EU accession: Pipe Dream or Possible Reality?
Local communities, who have a number of everyday concerns, still question ... ... limited solely to receiving high remuneration.
It is necessary to renounce viewing B&H as a “mandated territory” of the European Union. Appointing the OHR as a figure representing exclusively one of the “traditional” international powerhouses ...
... Kosovo and its inclusion into international institutions without Belgrade receiving anything in return (EURACTIV 2020). Serbia’s accession into the EU is subject to
Chapter 35
of EU accession, which relates to the normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo (European Union 2015), and despite the fact that Serbia has shown engagement in the dialogue, it still has restraints in many areas, such as customs tariffs (EU report). In addition, it is still unknown if Serbia will ever be ready to officially recognize ...
... significant effect on the economic situation in the country. The increased debt of the countries in the region to Chinese lenders may be a cause for concern. Nevertheless, it is too early to talk about the total economic subjugation of the Balkans: the European Union
remains
Southeast Europe’s largest donor, as well as its most significant investment and trade partner.
Serbia is also living up to its predicted central role in the region’s international economic contacts. The increasing role of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in the Balkans is also noteworthy. The Free Trade Agreement signed by the EAEU and Serbia ...
... Results and Prospects
Overall, Washington and Brussels should be more careful when it comes to Georgia’s motivation to join the European Union and NATO. Tbilisi has been looking for military support from the West to take back separatist territories and does ... ... (e.g. Tbilisi refused to recognize Kosovo).
Moscow should also be cautious when it comes to its bilateral relationship with Serbia. Belgrade is seeking support from Russia — and more recently from the People’s Republic of China — to counterbalance ...
... and Serbia is notable here. One of possible scenarios for Macedonia in this case is to form a confederation with Bulgaria or Serbia.
Only nationalist population of the region could support such a radical scenario, it would seriously shut off the Balkans ... ... development.
Germany takes an intransigent position regarding any territorial exchanges. As a result, it largely dominates the European Union. Berlin insists that it is totally unacceptable to implement any territorial exchanges and reorganize the Balkan ...
..., the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade has been transferred from the UN mediation format under the jurisdiction of the European Union. In the eyes of the EU politicians, taking the opportunity to independently resolve security backlogs and tackle ... ... effective mediator of this process. What Pristina did was the introduction in November 2018 of double customs duties on goods from Serbia as well as from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the announcement of the creation of the army of Kosovo, an extremely rigid negotiation ...
As European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker admitted in his annual speech to Members of the European Parliament, the European Union is going through an internal existential crisis, caused by the accumulation of several problems, with Brexit being ... ... straw that broke the camel’s back. This situation leaves the Western Balkan states who want to join the EU, particularly Serbia, who remains the most advanced in the negotiations for accession, uncertain and worried about the speed of the enlargement ...
... Britain submitted a draft resolution on Srebrenica to the UN Security Council, seeking to have the July 1995 killing of Muslim population by the Serb army commanded by Ratko Mladic qualified as genocide. Russia vetoed the resolution, a move welcomed in Serbia and the Republic Srpska and the utterly opposite response in the West, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resultant heated wrangling seems a manifestation of Russia-West geopolitical confrontation in the Balkans – this time in the form of a ...
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[6] Out of 28 member states only Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain do not recognize Kosovo’s independence.
[7] European Union, Trade in goods with Serbia (2014). Available at: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2008/august/tradoc_140028.pdf
[8] Import origins of Crude Petroleum to Serbia (2012). Available at: https://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/explore/tree_map/hs/import/srb/show/2709/2012/
[9] ...
