{"id":54179,"date":"2026-01-12T11:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/?p=54179"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:30:26","slug":"arthro-gia-ti-syndesi-tis-dievrynsis-kai-tin-epilysi-dimeron-diaforon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/behind-the-veil-of-eu-enlargement-kin-state-politics-and-the-securitisation-of-national-minorities-in-the-greek-albanian-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBehind the Veil of EU Enlargement\u201d &#8211; Kin-State Politics and The Securitisation of National Minorities in the Greek-Albanian Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><strong>Alessandro Ieran\u00f2<\/strong>, Project Research Assistant at the South-East Europe Programme (ELIAMEP), explores the interplay between EU enlargement disputes and minority rights in his new article for Contemporary Southeast Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing from the Beleri case and Hungary\u2019s ongoing veto on Ukraine, he observes how, in the context of bilateral disputes between a member (kin) state and a candidate (home) state, enlargement paralysis is a \u2018lose-lose\u2019 outcome for all parties involved. Above all, for national minorities, which risk to find themselves caught in the crossfire of politicisation and securitisation.<\/p>\n<p>As he argues, this stems from the of lack of safeguards and alternative-dispute resolution mechanisms in the current enlargement framework, which has turned veto powers from an atomic option into a default practice. This not only enables the politicisation of kin-minorities in candidate countries\u2014adding further straining bilateral relations\u2014but also jeopardises enlargement at the moment when it is most needed. To address this challenge, he proposes a set of policy recommendations aiming at restoring the credibility of the enlargement promise through mutual guarantees to both \u2018gatekeeping\u2019 kin-member states and \u2018obstructed\u2019 candidate-home states, while preventing the securitisation of national minorities.<\/p>\n<p>You may read the essay <a href=\"https:\/\/contemporarysee.org\/behind-the-veil-of-eu-enlargement-kinstate-politics-and-the-securitisation-of-national-minorities-in-the-greekalbanian-dispute\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro Ieran\u00f2, Project Research Assistant at the South-East Europe Programme (ELIAMEP), explores the interplay between EU enlargement disputes and minority rights in his new article for Contemporary Southeast Europe. Drawing from the Beleri case and Hungary\u2019s ongoing veto on Ukraine, he observes how, in the context of bilateral disputes between a member (kin) state and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"program":[23],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54182,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54179\/revisions\/54182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54179"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=54179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}