Fostering resilience in the Western Balkans: Opportunities and Challenges

This paper analyses the drivers of fragility and resilience¹ against the backdrop of the region’s European and Euro Atlantic integration. The latter is of immense importance as efforts to speed up Western Balkans’ EU and NATO membership prospects gained momentum in the last few years. However, these efforts were anything but flawless, facing formidable hurdles […]

Malign Influence in the Western Balkans

This paper explores the methods through which malign influence is employed and how it shapes the contemporary political landscape in the region. Additionally, it examines the strategies the European Union currently utilizes and might employ in the future to counteract this influence. In particular, the paper provides an indepth understanding of the region's intricate geopolitical [...]

Reaction: The ratification of the agreements from the Berlin process, which the citizens evaluate as very beneficial, must be accelerated

Advancing regional cooperation in the Western Balkans is one of the priority paths towards common progress and integration in the European Union. The Berlin process is one of the key signposts on that path. Last November, the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia together with the Governments of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, […]

Europe in crisis. The impact on the public opinion in North Macedonia

Two-thirds of the respondents (65%) do not agree with the constitutional changes necessary for completing of the phase for start of the accession. Firm majority of 80% of ethic Macedonians are against Constitutional amendments. The majority of respondents (53%) identified as ethnic Albanians support these changes. The respondents are divided on the opinion that ″the […]