Date: 2023
Type: Contribution to book
The perceptions of European Union–Western Balkan integration prospects : introduction and overview
Milica UVALIĆ (ed.), Integrating the Western Balkans into the European Union : overcoming mutual misperceptions, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 1-24
UVALIC, Milica, The perceptions of European Union–Western Balkan integration prospects : introduction and overview, in Milica UVALIĆ (ed.), Integrating the Western Balkans into the European Union : overcoming mutual misperceptions, Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 1-24
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76594
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The main motivation for this book derives from a simple fact: the process of political integration into the European Union (EU) of the six Western Balkan countries—Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia—has been extremely (and arguably, unexpectedly) slow. The year 2023 marks twenty years since the EU-Western Balkan Summit in Thessaloniki, when the Western Balkan countries were promised an “EU perspective”. This chapter introduces the issue of perceptions, gives a historical background of relations between the EU and the Western Balkans, recalls the main reasons why mutual perceptions have deteriorated in recent years and highlights the economic motives behind such trends despite the region’s strong economic integration with the EU. It also presents the structure of the book and its principal contents.
Additional information:
Published online: 26 July 2023
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76594
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32205-1_1
ISBN: 9783031322044; 9783031322051
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Sponsorship and Funder information:
ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union and Soros Foundation Serbia
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