Download or read book EU Enlargement and its Impact to the Western Balkans written by Elton Tota and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to highlight the relationship between the EU and the Western Balkan countries in light of their EU membership perspective and the impact that the EU Enlargement of Central and Eastern European countries at the beginning of the twenty first century has given to the Western Balkans. The book presents, in depth, the dual relationship between the EU and the Western Balkans. On the one hand it displays the continuous EU role in the Western Balkans, in particular in issues such as: the EU accession criteria; the EU approach and enlargement strategy; the visa liberalization process; the Stabilization and Association Process; the Stabilization and Association Agreements; instruments of financial assistance; the EU role in restoring and keeping peace and stability and in increasing the regional cooperation among the Western Balkans countries. On the other hand, it presents and analyses the progress the Western Balkans have achieved and the challenges faced such as: initially with the implementation of the bilateral Free Trade Agreements and then the regional Free Trade Agreement and the Stabilization and Association Agreements; nature and effects of these agreements in developing markets, in increasing trade exchanges among the Western Balkans countries; the progress each country has made toward lasting growth and in fulfilling the criteria of the EU integration process. The book reflects the regional approach of EU towards those countries while differentiating the individual progress in each country. This gives the book an interdisciplinary character. The latest enlargement experiences of the EU are used as a comparison for the current EU policy towards Western Balkans, while confirming a clear integration perspective for the region.

Download or read book The Stabilisation and Association Process written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was use the SAP to progress towards EU membership.9 The on offer was the chance to establish contractual Zagreb summit also launched a new EU programme, relations with the EU through the signing of namely the Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Stabilisation and Association Agreements (SAA) - the Democratisation and Stabilisation (CARDS), with an end-goal of the SAP - along with the pros [...] These are complex - and the less pervasive impact of the war, contained in the 1997 Council and set out on an which accelerated the transition process and the individual basis depending on the state of the reform subsequent elimination of the legacies of the war and process. [...] Delays over the formation of a new is at stake at the end of the process, namely the European perspective government after the 2007 legislative elections have slowed down and the set up of SAAs, the Balkan version of the CEE's European negotiations with Croatia, which has opened only 16 out of the 35 partnerships, which require partial compliance with the Copenhagen chapters that need to be closed [...] In BiH, for example, the Commission has always advocated an end to the Bonn powers and a challenge and the return to local sovereignty, as it contradicts the spirit of the European project, but "the Council has been quest for unity more cautious and keen on maintaining the international presence."32 Similarly conflicting The post-conflict nature of the transition process in the approaches can be s [...] While the commitment to chancellor Angela Merkel for example stated on 15 Balkan integration has not been turned down and the March 2006 that the EU was considering a "privileged enlargement machinery continues to reproduce itself, partnership" for the WB as an option for closer ties thanks primarily to the duty of the Commission to with the EU.63 Growing doubts over the merits of comply with the.

Download or read book European Integration of Western Balkans written by Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic and published by Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PDF available for free on http://martenscentre.eu/publications/european-integration-western-balkans-reconciliation-european-future While most of Europe decided to unite in the 20th and 21st century, a country in the Balkans split into seven independent states. The efforts of these states to join the European Union and the reconciliation initiatives between the countries are detailed in this research paper. Despite the efforts of the countries of the region and of the EU, a lot of work is needed before these countries will become sufficiently mature in political, economic and societal sense to become members of the European Union. The promotion of dialogue, grassroots movements, civil society and cross-border projects is needed in order to tackle unresolved problems in the region.

Download or read book A European Perspective for the Western Balkans written by Hubert Isak and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the status quo of the process of integration of the Western Balkan countries in the European Union.

Download or read book Stabilization and Association Process in the Balkans written by Bartłomiej Kamiński and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stabilization and Association Process in the Balkans written by Bartlomiej Kaminski and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stabilization and association process launched by the European Union in the aftermath of the Kosovo war in 1999 has created a new policy environment for five South East European countries (SEE-5). In exchange for EU assistance, the prospect of EU accession, and the continuation of preferential access to EU markets, SEE-5 governments have to upgrade their institutions and governance by European standards and engage in mutual regional cooperation, including stability pact member-countries.Kaminski and de la Rocha examine the benefits to SEE-5 of trade liberalization along two dimensions and suggest conditions under which these could be maximized. They argue that the process of regional trade liberalization should be extended to multilateral liberalization, aligning SEE-5 most-favored-nation (MFN) applied tariffs on industrial products with EU MFN tariffs, and that priority be given to structural reforms and regional cooperation aimed at trade facilitation. As interindustry trade rather than intra-industry trade dominates intra-SEE-5 trade, the potential for expansion in intra-SEE-5 trade is limited at least within the confines of the existing production structures and transportation infrastructure. Therefore, SEE-5 free trade agreements are unlikely to contribute to economic growth without concurrent efforts to improve infrastructure, trade facilitation, business, and investment climate, as well as to increase competition from MFN imports to external preferential suppliers through multilateral liberalization.This paper - a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, Europe and Central Asia Region - was prepared in the context of the World Bank's regional program for South Eastern Europe. Its objective is to support the integration in the world economy - and in Europe in particular - of five countries that are currently engaged with the European Union in the stabilization and association process.

Download or read book The Stabilisation and Association Process in the Balkans written by Arolda Elbasani and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The EU and Member State Building written by Soeren Keil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically examines the process of statebuilding by the EU, focusing on its attempts to build Member States in the Western Balkan region. This book analyses the European Union's policies towards, and the impact they have, upon the states of the Western Balkans, and assesses how these affect the nature of EU foreign policy. To this end, it focuses on the tools and mechanisms that the EU employs in its enlargement policy and examines the new instruments of direct intervention (in Bosnia and Kosovo), political coercion (in the case of Croatia and Serbia in relation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia), and stricter conditionality in the Western Balkan countries. The book discusses the key aim of this special form of statebuilding, which is to establish functional liberal-democratic states in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia in order for them to join the EU and to cope with the responsibilities and pressures of membership in the future. However, the authors argue that while the EU sees itself as an international actor that promotes and protects liberal-democratic values, norms and principles, its experiences in the Western Balkans demonstrate how the EU ́s actions in the region have undermined the basic principles of democratic decision-making (such as the European support for impositions in Bosnia) and international law (Kosovo), and have consequently contributed to new tensions (see police reform in Bosnia, and the tensions between Kosovo and Serbia) and dependencies. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, EU politics, global governance and IR/Security Studies in general.

Download or read book European Integration and the Balkans written by Theodor Winkler and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Developments in the Western Balkans and Policy Responses written by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region written by Costa, Bruno Ferreira and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite all efforts to create a political union capable of improving European citizens’ quality of life, there are several barriers to the European Union’s (EU) expansion to the Balkan Region. The EU enlargement and expansion to the Balkan Region is one of the Union’s greatest challenges and political objectives in recent years. In the turmoil of economic, social, and sanitarian crises, where is the space to debate the enlargement of the EU? Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region presents the EU’s structure, the process of enlargement, and the challenges related to the Balkan region. This book addresses critical issues and challenges in the EU and the emerging trends for the EU’s future. Covering topics such as enlargement policy, integration, NATO, and political challenges, this book is a valuable resource for post-grad students of political science and international affairs, faculty of higher education, researchers, academicians, politicians, world leaders, and policymakers.

Download or read book EU Conditionality in the Western Balkans written by Florian Bieber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how European institutions, the European Union in particular through its policy of conditionality, have shaped the post-conflict reconstruction of the Western Balkans. From state-building to democratization and environmental policies, this book explores whether and in what ways the EU has been successful in consolidating states and democracy in the Balkans. In addition to requiring countries to be ready to join the European Union, the EU has also set new conditions in an effort to become the prime international organization involved in stabilizing the Western Balkans after the wars of the 1990s. Its record has been mixed: the conditions of the EU have often been haphazard and were frequently not followed through. In addition, enlargement towards the Western Balkans has been slow and marred by open questions over the stability of some countries in the region. This volume assesses the EU's struggle to transform the societies through conditionality and whether the offer of EU membership is enough to build stable democracies. This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Download or read book Stabilization and Association Process in the Balkans written by Bartłomiej Kamiński and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book EU and the Balkans written by Leila Simona Talani and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integration and disintegration are the two poles of economic, political and security discourse in an area, Balkans and Southern Eastern Europe (SEE). This book assesses the extent to which the integration of the Balkans into the EU will either foster or discourage the integration of the area itself, and the winners and losers under this process.

Download or read book Regional Cooperation in the Western Balkans written by Milica Delević-Đilas and published by Institute for Security Studies European Union. This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Chaillot Paper tries to provide a background against which both cooperation among the countries of the region and their integration in the EU, as major vectors of long-term stabilisation, can be better understood but also more effectively encouraged. Focusing on the forms of cooperation that exist in the region, and also on the different expectations among external actors encouraging and regional actors participating in this, it highlights the importance of successful future cooperation and integration in a region that has traditionally known little of either.

Download or read book Regional Cooperation in South Eastern Europe written by Duško Lopandić and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrating the Western Balkans written by Andreas Nøhr Vestergaard and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: