The accession impasses to Albania and North Macedonia and their effects on the European integration of the Western Balkans
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Marko MILENKOVIĆ and Irena RISTIĆ (eds), Memories, identities and current conflicts : mapping the challenges of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, Padua : CEDAM, 2024, CISR - Centro Italiano per lo Sviluppo della Ricerca ; 81, pp. 59-82
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BESHKU, Klodiana, The accession impasses to Albania and North Macedonia and their effects on the European integration of the Western Balkans, in Marko MILENKOVIĆ and Irena RISTIĆ (eds), Memories, identities and current conflicts : mapping the challenges of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, Padua : CEDAM, 2024, CISR - Centro Italiano per lo Sviluppo della Ricerca ; 81, pp. 59-82 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77719
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The refusal of the European Council in October 2019 to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia kicked off once again an old debate within the EU: The nationalisation the European Council towards the candidate countries and the transformation of Enlargement in this regard. This chapter briefly analyses what has happened in the period between 2019 and 2022 from both WB and EU perspectives. It tries to give some preliminary points for a discussion on the EU and the future of its enlargement in the advent of a geopolitical moment for Europe caused by the war in Ukraine. Eventually becoming part of the European Union has always been the leading driving force for the reforms of the last three decades for the Western Balkan countries. Although during 2019-2022 there have been more theoretical than practical advances in this direction, allegiance to the EU has never been in doubt in some of the countries the region. This chapter analyses the relations between the EU and the Western Balkans in a twofold dimension with a case selection focussing on Albania and North Macedonia.
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Published: December 2024