Southeast Europe Today. Immediate Development Prospects
... beneficiaries participate in such projects, we may say that the region’s gas supplies are diversified. The absence of a dominant gas supplier indeed stabilizes the situation in Southeast Europe. Another critical factor is the increasing role that Turkey is playing in the Balkans. Ankara has significantly bolstered its regional standing, stepping up cooperation in several areas at once, including its interaction with Serbia, which is carried out directly between the two heads of state via the High-Level Cooperation Council ( HLCC ). Ankara and Serbia signed a series of agreements spanning various areas of cooperation, from economics and education to defence and state-of-the-art ...