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@biepag.bsky.social
Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) is a group of policy analysts, scholars and researchers from Western Balkans and EU. ℹ️ www.biepag.eu
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🔔BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social for
savremenapolitika.com
🔹Student list in Serbia is an extraordinary experiment in democracy
"The student movement does not offer a comprehensive political alternative, but return of politics to the public space."
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Waarom Westelijke Balkanlanden de EU-toetreding van #Montenegro niet moeten vrezen maar steunen
europeanwesternbalkans.com/2025/10/13/w...
by @jomarovic.bsky.social in @biepag.bsky.social (republished on the European Western Balkans portal)
🔔BiEPAG blog
by @jomarovic.bsky.social
🔹In Search of Lost Regional Solidarity - or, Who’s Afraid of Montenegro in the EU?
"Montenegro’s progress is not a threat to its neighbors;
it's a test of whether the idea of a common EU future for the Western Balkans still holds".
🔗 tinyurl.com/488wnvwu
🔔Our BiEPAG member Donika Emini and her colleague Iliriana Gjoni with a commentary for
@carnegieeurope.bsky.social
🔹In Kosovo’s Elections, Serb Representation Is the West’s Fig Leaf
#Kosovo #KosovoElections
#BrusselsAgreement #EU
#WesternBalkans #Serbia
🔗 tinyurl.com/auduybpu
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#Montenegro
#EUEnlargement
#WesternBalkans
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🔈BiEPAG in the Media 📰
@fbieber.bsky.social in an interview for
@vijesti.bsky.social
"Relations in the Balkans have become "quite harsh and difficult. Serbian President Vucic is not the only one to blame for this, but that he is the main cause of it.
#Montenegro #EU
tinyurl.com/4ajcn2v6
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#EUIntegration
#Montenegro
#WesternBalkans
#EU #EUEnlargement
#EUCommission
@jomarovic.bsky.social @fbieber.bsky.social
ℹ️At our yesterday's panel at
Europe House in Podgorica, BiEPAG experts, media & diplomats agreed: now is the moment to push forward reforms in #Montenegro & seize the geopolitical chance!
🎯🔹Support is high🔹 Mistakes are costly🔹EU window of opportunity won't stay open forever
🔔Read the new BiEPAG blog👇
🔷Albania’s AI Minister Dilemma: Fighting Corruption or Strengthening Authoritarianism?
✍️ @gresahasa.bsky.social
"The appointment of #Diella was made without constitutional basis, since #Albania has no legal provisions for an AI minister"
🔗 tinyurl.com/4v6x4ycd
ℹ️More info on the panel discussion👇
www.biepag.eu/news/biepag-...
Panelists:
• Dr. Ivan Vukovic, Chair of the Committee on European Integration of the Parliament of Montenegro
• Miloš Radonjić, Advisor to the President of Montenegro for European Affairs
• Dr. @jomarovic.bsky.social
• Prof. Dr. @fbieber.bsky.social
Moderator:
Dr. Marina Vulović, BiEPAG Member
📣Join us for our upcoming BiEPAG event in Podgorica
🔹 Montenegro at the Crossroads: Driving EU Integration in the Western Balkans
📅 Thursday, 25 September 2025
⏲️ 15:00 - 16:30
📍 Europe House, Podgorica
#Montenegro
#EUAccession
#EUEnlargement
#WesternBalkans #EU
My take on protests in Serbia 🇷🇸 for Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @biepag.bsky.social
17.09.2025 17:07 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0🔔New BiEPAG blog
✍️Author: BiEPAG's Programme Manager
Samir Beharić
🔷Eleventh Stage of Genocide: Srebrenica Is Remembered Once a Year, Denial Happens Every Day
Read it at👇
tinyurl.com/49dvdr3w
#Srebrenica #Srebrenica30
#SrebrenicaGenocide
#BosniaandHerzegovina #EU
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🔊BiEPAG in the Media📰
BiEPAG member @jomarovic.bsky.social
in an interview for the Montenegrin News Agency MINA
"The #EU should issue a political declaration by the end of this year committing to concluding an accession treaty with #Montenegro".
#EUIntegrations
mina.news/vijesti-iz-c...
Focus on🔎
#Albania #BosniaandHerzegovina #Kosovo
#Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia
#EU #WesternBalkans #EUAccession
#EUCommission #EUEnlargement
⬇️Download it at👇
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She also urges limiting the misuse of bilateral vetoes and empowering civil society to restore the EU’s normative power and credibility in the enlargement process.
10.07.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Marović calls for providing a time-bound accession path fast-tracking for frontrunner(s) based on measurable rule of law progress, aligning EU rhetoric with reality and enforcing clear accession criteria...
10.07.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Despite positive rhetoric, the EU tolerates backsliding, rewards autocrats, and applies conditionality inconsistently. This deepens public distrust and weakens reform incentives...
10.07.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0In this paper, BiEPAG member @jomarovic.bsky.social argues that the #EU undermines its credibility in the #WesternBalkans by prioritizing stability and strategic interests over democratic reforms...
10.07.2025 07:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🔔BiEPAG policy brief by @jomarovic.bsky.social
"From Norms to Noise: Why the EU Talks Reform but Fuels Decline in the Balkans" offers a timely and sharp analysis of the EU’s approach to enlargement in the Western Balkans, highlighting inconsistencies between rhetoric and practice.
#EUEnlargement
For more insights on this topic, check the BiEPAG policy brief: Mining in the Western Balkans - The Rise of Dangerous Transactionalism authored by Džihić.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yxy6ubrx
"According to Džihić, governance failures, combined with state capture and corruption, risk turning the region into what some critics have called “Europe’s future mining colony.”
#Environment #Minning
#CriticalRawMaterials #Lithium
#EU #WesternBalkans #EUEnlargement
🔈BiEPAG in the Media📰
Our BiEPAG member @vedrandzihic.bsky.social
contributed to KOSOVO 2.0 regional overview on
"Protecting the environment in the Western Balkans"
Read the article in English, Albanian and B/C/S.
#Environment #Minning
#EU #WesternBalkans
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"This would not only deliver a fatal blow to the EU’s credibility among candidate countries but, amid escalating geopolitical threats, threaten the security and stability of the Union itself."
07.07.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"Without a paradigm shift in Brussels, Belgrade risks sliding down the same authoritarian path of Tbilisi and Ankara, empowering aspiring autocrats and inviting disruptive external influence across the Western Balkans."
07.07.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"As the façade of democratic competitiveness crumbles, it stands at a crossroads: either it drops the mask and reveals its authoritarian nature, or it will likely lose power to genuine democratic change."
07.07.2025 12:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"SNS’s threat to cancel upcoming local elections, should the “undemocratic atmosphere” of Zaječar and Kosjerić recur, offers yet another indication that, caught between fading legitimacy and a declining cooptation effectiveness, Vučić regime is increasingly turning to repression to maintain power."
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