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This volume is made up of a selection of peer-reviewed chapters originally presented at the 13th international conference on European Integration, organized by the University American College Skopje. Entitled: "Europe and the Balkans", the conference was held at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Skopje, on 17 May 2018. The main purpose of the conference had been to re-examine the complex construct of the Balkans in the European political and cultural imagination. Although the Balkans have been claimed by local nations as the 'cradle of European civilization', for Western imagining the region has usually featured as a 'part of Europe, yet not of it'. It is to be hoped that the negative demi-orientalizing discourse which has stigmatized the Balkans as both a vortex of stagnation and violence, and as 'an incomplete self' of Europe will eventually fade away with the integration of the Balkan countries into the European Union. Nevertheless, t...
Europe and the Balkans - 13th annual international academic conference on European integration (conference proceedings), 2018
This volume is made up of a selection of peer-reviewed chapters originally presented at the 13th international conference on European Integration, organized by the University American College Skopje. Entitled: “Europe and the Balkans”, the conference was held at the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Skopje, on 17 May 2018. The main purpose of the conference had been to re-examine the complex construct of the Balkans in the European political and cultural imagination. Although the Balkans have been claimed by local nations as the ‘cradle of European civilization’, for Western imagining the region has usually featured as a ‘part of Europe, yet not of it’. It is to be hoped that the negative demi-orientalizing discourse which has stigmatized the Balkans as both a vortex of stagnation and violence, and as ’an incomplete self’ of Europe will eventually fade away with the integration of the Balkan countries into the European Union. Nevertheless, the controversial term ’Western Balkans’, invented as a seeming mask of political correctness, testifies to prevailing prejudice and obstacles to the process of European integration. It should also be noted that as a catch-all expression for the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, the term ’Western Balkans’ used to designate a geographical space once referred to more generally as South Eastern Europe was contested throughout the conference. The conference which involved about 20 prominent Macedonian and international scholars as well as over 120 attendees afforded an excellent opportunity to contribute to a better understanding of the Berlin Process and to other initiatives related to the integration of the Western Balkans into the EU.
The Balkans and the European Union
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The Balkan question is both a historical and a political one. With the coming together of some European countries to form the European Union (EU); it became necessary for these countries to forge head both on the economic and the political fronts. This in essence has accentuated the gains made by these European countries but it has had its attendant ramifications. This notwithstanding, the idea of European integration on the principle of peace, common history, cultural and economic development cannot be fully realised since some sectors of Europe is neutral or isolated. The literature on the nature of such integrations especially the need for the integration of the Balkan regions should continue to be discussed and implemented. This paper however, looks at the literature from a social and political history point of view and projects the necessary turns that Europe has made and the need to come to a useful end in the discourse that leads us to observing or witnessing a united Europe whose socioeconomic , political and military complex holds its own against the odds but also for the common good of humanity.
ESSAY European Union and the Western Balkans
Course: The EU and the World Student: Yevheniia Shevchenko Student number: U144N1726 12 Lucia Vesnic-Alujevic, European Integration of Western Balkans: From Reconciliation To European Future. -
The Challenges of Western Balkans towards the European Union
International Conference on Economic and Social Studies (ICESoS` 14) Loren Senja Specialist at Career Planning and Alumni Office Epoka University Tirane / Albania lsenja@epoka.edu.al www.epoka.edu.al Subject: The Challenges of Western Balkans towards the European Union Integration of the Western Balkans in the European Union is one of the major challenges in the policies of this Union. There are different reasons for this situation. European countries look with distrust coexistence of peoples of the Balkan under the mantel of EU. The economic crisis that has involved the European Union has created difficulties in integration of the Western Balkans. As a result of economic crisis extremist spirit was added in some states of the Union. This paper presents challenges faced by Western Balkan countries towards EU integration. The hypothesis of this paper is to analyze economic crisis in European Union, diminished initiative to expand to new countries. Paper also analyzes the impact of Balkans interior conflicts of 1990s and approaches towards integration. Additionally paper examine the steps that are following Western Balkans to become EU member. Evolution of European Union engagement in the region. What are the challenges of Western Balkan countries towards EU integration? Why Enlargement of Union was not supported too from citizens of EU? What new brought economic crisis in EU? Strong economic dependence of Balkan states with European Union and national deficits has less opportunity for progress. Solving the economic crisis is seen with more priority by countries members of the EU rather than its expanding. Furthermore the paper discusses the fact that economic crisis raised the extremist spirit of some European Union member states. Countries like Netherlands and Greece have their veto for the further expansion of the Union. Used methodology is multiple case report through qualitative method. Literature is based in different books, newspapers and various articles related with this topic. First part discuss Balkan internal problem and EU. The second part analyzes European Union economic crisis and integration of Western Balkans. Keywords: Western Balkans, European Union, Economic Crisis, Expanding, Integration
The European integration of the western Balkans (Part II)
SEER, 2018
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