CIAO DATE: 07/04

Thessaloniki And After I: The EU's Balkan Agenda

Abstract

The EU-Western Balkans Summit to be held in Thessaloniki on 21 June runs a real risk of discouraging reformers and increasing alienation in the Balkans, unless European policies towards the region are substantially enriched.

The current EU policies - the Stabilisation and Association Process (Sap) , and the Stability Pact - were established in the uncertain days of 1999, immediately following the Kosovo crisis. They combine a standard set of bilateral initiatives with exhortations to the states of the region to cooperate with each other more.

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