Dans cette étude publiée par Notre Europe, Bertrand De Largentaye, Fabien Dupuis et Tamara Buschek soutiennent que le moment est venu pour l’Union européenne de faire le point sur la situation dans les Balkans occidentaux, l’Union européenne disposant d’un atout unique : la perspective d’adhésion.
Ten years after Dayton, six years after NATO intervened to put an end to the violence in Kosovo, the wars of Yugoslav succession finally seem to be over, but the Yugoslav succession itself is still in a sense open. In May there will be a referendum in Montenegro on whether or not the country maintains its union with Serbia. The final status of Kosovo has not yet been determined, even though it looks highly likely that it will involve severing the link with Serbia. The people from the three main faiths in Bosnia-Herzegovina are not yet ready to be reconciled. The proceedings at the tribunal in The Hague against alleged war criminals are far from over.
This policy paper gives an overview of the current situation in the Western Balkans and underlines the importance of the EU’s role in that region.
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