The Western Balkans’ statistical black hole
How many people live in the Western Balkans? The unreliability of statistics on the region often makes it hard to tell.
Western Balkans
From myth to reality: How to understand Turkey’s role in the Western Balkans
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6 Mar
Western Balkans in Focus
Workshop Understanding the role of third actors & looking for solutions to tackle the brain drain
28 Feb
One step closer – Georgia, EU-integration, and the settlement of the frozen conflicts?
Black Coffee Morning in cooperation with Georgia's Reforms Associates (GRASS).
Luck like the Irish: How emigration can be good for the Western Balkans
Introduction Few parts of Europe are more marked by emigration than the Western Balkans.[1] Yet despite many decades of its people leaving…
“1 in 5 million”: Mounting pressure in Balkan protests
New civil protests are laying bare growing forms of repression across the Western Balkans
The price of normalisation: Serbia, Kosovo, and a risky border deal
This is the time for EU and its member states to push for solutions to the Serbia-Kosovo landswap that have domestic support and that enhance wider stability in the region
Macedonian referendum: What happens next?
Mark Leonard speaks with Vessela Tcherneva and Robert Cooper about the contested result and how it might be solved. Bookshelf: Carnegie report on…
Macedonia’s looming war of interpretations
A clear majority in favour of the name deal in the referendum on September 30 would help to relieve tensions in the Balkans
Breaking old habits in the Balkans
Opinions cost nothing, but it is not our opinions that matter – let's not take sides before we know what has been proposed