Southeast Europe Today. Immediate Development Prospects
... their countries of residence, in particular to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and the unrecognized Republic of Kosovo appears to be a principal problem today. This already creates hotbeds of tensions in predominantly Muslim areas in the Balkans. The European Union’s position on the matter is no cause for optimism either. The degradation of the political regimes in some Balkans states has also had a serious impact on destabilization tendencies in the region. In 2018–2019, a wave of mass rallies rolled through Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo. The protesters demanded the resignation of their respective governments and presidents and independence for the media. They also accused the ruling elites of putting pressure on the opposition and of having ties to the ...