CIAO DATE: 04/04

Economic Recovery and Security: Two Important Challenges for the EU in South East Europe

Abstract

The main issue of the workshop was how economy can contribute to the stabilisation process in the region. A broad consensus could be reached that economic reforms, democratisation and strengthening of security are interactive processes, which strongly depend on each other . On the one hand it is difficult to imagine that a social market economy in South East European societies can evolve without creatings table political institutions in a secure environment. On the other hand the economic performance of the South East European countries and especially external economic influence seem to have a very strong impact on institution building and the bilateral and multilateral relations in the region.

One of the very positive impressions from this workshop is that despite of the last cruel wars, SEE countries have become aware of the fact that economic recovery of others in the region is also in their interest and that there is in general a necessity for regional ties.

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