CSF - op-eds

03 Dec, 2017 | STEVEN BLOCKMANS

Revitalising the EU enlargement policy for the Western Balkans: End of the Berlin Process?

After years of strategic neglect by the European Commission, whose President Juncker infamously stated in July 2014 that there would be no enlargement of the EU under his watch, th

02 Dec, 2017 | JELICA MINIĆ

Why the Berlin Process is still needed?

The starting point is: both the Western Balkans and the European Union need the Berlin Process. It will certainly be needed until the moment when Montenegro and Serbia approach the

02 Dec, 2017 | ERHARD BUSEK

To increase the problem-solving capacity of the region

In the current situation of Europe the Berlin Process is of outstanding importance! After a longer time where there was no big interest in the development in Southeast Europe, the

01 Dec, 2017 | IGOR NOVAKOVĆ

Berlin Process and Bilateral Issues 2.0

One of the important elements of the Berlin Process, in political terms, is the Declaration on Bilateral Issues, signed at the 2015 Vienna Summit by the ministers of foreign affair

01 Dec, 2017 | MARIKA DJOLAI

Intricate Future of the Berlin Process

The UK will be hosting the last of the five Western Balkans Summits in the framework of the Berlin Process in 2018, a concluding step for the process that was initiated in 2014 by Angela Merkel. The a

24 Jul, 2017 | ANA MARJANOVIĆ RUDAN

Article in Danas daily: Why is civil society part of the Berlin Process and how to best use this?

Link to the article There are three reasons why the civil society of the Western Balkans is included in the Berlin Process – first, the reforms required for the

09 Jul, 2017 | LEJLA RAMIĆ-MESIHOVIĆ

Berlin Process still an important forum for UK commitment

Given the fact that the United Kingdom came out with a post-Brexit policy line which supports integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union, the context of the Berlin process in which thi

09 Jul, 2017 | PIERO FASSINO

Hello Europe, anyone home?

After the tragedy that devastated the territories of the Yugoslav federation, the European Union has committed itself to promoting stability and an integration process for Balkan c

09 Jul, 2017 | UGO POLI

The challenging opportunity of migration: can CSOs strengthen their role?

The consensus on the implementation of the international rights of refugees and asylum seekers is apparently shared by the institutional levels of all countries, and there is agree

07 Jul, 2017 | ELEONORA POLI

What’s next? The British Presidency of the Berlin Process at the time of Brexit

2016 has been the year of a number of unpredictable shifts in the global arena. Together with the elections of Donald Trump as President of the Unites states, Brexit is certainly one of them. Defined

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