The South-East Europe Programme of ELIAMEP participated in a joint research project, under the auspices of the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels, which examined the EU member states’ policies towards the EU enlargement in the Balkans. The project, which ran throughout 2014 and early 2015, brought together a large group of researches from seventeen […]
During the post-Cold War period, Greece found itself in an advantageous position compared to the rest of the Balkan states. Its participation in the Western institutions, its consolidated democratic institutions as well as its relatively strong market economy made Greece the most stable country in the region. Greece’s economic activity and its political initiatives in […]
The new report of ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme outlines the current state of play in the EU accession process of the Western Balkan states and the Greek Presidency’s initiatives and activities for the region. The report finds that, despite low expectations due to the Greek economic drama and enlargement fatigue, the fifth Greek EU Presidency engaged […]
ELIAMEP’s South-East Europe Programme and the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS) have teamed up to implement the first ever joint effort for a comprehensive study of the status of relations between Greece and Albania. The first step in this collaborative effort was to scientifically map the attitudes and perceptions that the two societies hold for one […]
On the 1st of July 2013, Croatia is set to become the 28th member of the EU after the successful closure of a prolonged process of accession negotiations, which started back in March 2005. Two decades after the end of the Yugoslav wars, and during a time when many in Western Europe grumble about the “reckless” EU […]
Since November 2012, Preševo Valley, an Albanian-majority area in southern Serbia, has been the epicentre of growing tension in the Western Balkans. Tensions began with the construction of a monument commemorating 27 fallen members of the Liberation Army of Preševo, Medveđa and Bujanovac (UÇPMB) – an offshoot of the Liberation Army of Kosovo (UÇK) – and were then […]
The 1st Issue of Volume 13 of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies is available now. This issue contains a variety of articles discussing Europeanisation and the EU in Southeast Europe. Apostolos Agnantopoulos explains Greek support for Turkey’s EU Accession, and Ritsa Panagiotou looks at how the enlargement prospects of the Western Balkans will be affected by the […]
A reassessment of the capacity-expectations analogy by the Greek administration in 2007, stemming from the idea Greece being a responsible locomotive of Balkan integration and an agent of peace and development prompted Greece to adopt a critical revision to the name dispute agenda.vii The attitude of an all-out rejection over a name compromise that included […]
