Europeanization of the Western Balkans (WB) is shadowed by multiple factors on both side \u2013 EU and WB states. EU internal challenges (economic crisis, migrant crisis, rising of euroscepticism, etc.) have omitted the Enlargement from Brussels\u2019 agenda for a while. On the other hand, the lack of political will, irresponsibility of WB political elites and misusing the current EU challenges (by certain decision makers) influenced delay in WB internal reforms and democratic backsliding.\u00a0 After Mr. Junker\u2019s announcement in the State of the Union regarding EU Enlargement in the next decade the new opportunity of window has arisen. However, both the EU enlargement process and Europeanization of WB seeks for improvement of already existed European integration instruments, such as Stabilization and Association Agreements \u2013 SAA and CEFTA2006 agreements, and re-launching positive EU Enlargement narrative.<\/p>\n
Overall goal\u00a0<\/strong>is to contribute to the European integration perspectives of the WB through fostering instruments for more effective Enlargement of the EU.<\/p>\n Objectives are<\/strong>:<\/p>\n The objectives will be achieved through policy research and advocacy activities.<\/p>\n Developed policy recommendations for the SAA\/CEFTA2006 improvements and policy paper with three scenarios for the Enlargement of the EU to the WB will be discussed with policy and opinion makers in six public events in WB capitals, while closed meetings with EU policy makers will be organized in the Brussels and Berlin.<\/p>\n Project duration:<\/strong>\u00a0October 2017 \u2013 January 2019.<\/p>\n Project partners<\/strong>: European Movement Serbia (Serbia), Albanian Institute for International Studies (Albania), European Policy Institute \u2013 Skopje (Macedonia), Riinvest Institute (Kosovo), European Movement in Montenegro (Montenegro).<\/p>\n Budget:\u00a0<\/strong>7500 EUR<\/p>\n Donors:\u00a0<\/strong>The project is funded by\u00a0German Ministry for Foreign Affairs<\/strong>\u00a0 and\u00a0Foundation Open Society Institute<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Europeanization of the Western Balkans (WB) is shadowed by multiple factors on both side \u2013 EU and WB states. EU internal challenges (economic crisis, migrant crisis, rising of euroscepticism, etc.) have omitted the Enlargement from Brussels\u2019 agenda for a while. On the other hand, the lack of political will, irresponsibility of WB political elites and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-10265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pristapuvanje-vo-eu","category-proekti","tag-2017-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n