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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 5d

🔔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

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In Kosovo’s Elections, Serb Representation Is the West’s Fig Leaf

Left without a functioning Assembly since February 2025, Kosovo’s febrile politics is due for another test. With options for representation of the Serb minority limited to Belgrade-backed proxies, Oct...

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 5d

Read it in English👇

#Montenegro
#EUEnlargement
#WesternBalkans

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Bieber: Montenegro could benefit the most from possible fall of Vucic's regime

Montenegro is the country that could benefit the most from the possible fall of Aleksandar Vucic's regime in Serbia, said Florian Bieber, a professor at the Uni

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 5d

🔈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

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INTERVJU Biber za "Vijesti": Ako "padne" Vučić, Crna Gora će najviše profitirati

Ako bi Crna Gora ušla u EU, koja poruka bi time bila poslata Srbiji: da je razlog zašto ona nije ušla - sadašnja vlast. To nije poželjno za Vučića, i on će raditi ...

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 12d

Read the full report 👇
tinyurl.com/4hxdtawh

#EUIntegration
#Montenegro
#WesternBalkans
#EU #EUEnlargement
#EUCommission

@jomarovic.bsky.social @fbieber.bsky.social

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 13d

🔔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"

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 15d

ℹ️More info on the panel discussion👇

www.biepag.eu/news/biepag-...

BiEPAG - BiEPAG in Podgorica: Montenegro at the Crossroads: Driving EU Integration in the Western Balkans, Europe House - September 25, 2025

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · 15d

📣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

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Florian Bieber @fbieber.bsky.social · 21d

My take on protests in Serbia 🇷🇸 for Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @biepag.bsky.social

Serbia Protests: Student-led Demonstrations Aim to Unseat President Vucic

More violence over the summer has shown the depth of discontentment in a country that the EU has been trying to keep onside.

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 23

🔔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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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 15

Read it in English👇
en.vijesti.me/news-b/polit...

Marović: EU should commit to concluding an accession agreement with Montenegro

The former Minister of European Affairs, commenting on Montenegro's results achieved this year on its European path, said that another step has been taken towards ...

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔊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...

Marović: EU da se obaveže na zaključivanje pristupnog ugovora sa Crnom Gorom | MINA

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 10

Focus on🔎
#Albania #BosniaandHerzegovina #Kosovo
#Montenegro #NorthMacedonia #Serbia
#EU #WesternBalkans #EUAccession
#EUCommission #EUEnlargement

⬇️Download it at👇
tinyurl.com/mw4jp5t3

BiEPAG - From Norms to Noise: Why the EU Talks Reform but Fuels decline in the Balkans

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 10

Marović 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...

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 10

Despite positive rhetoric, the EU tolerates backsliding, rewards autocrats, and applies conditionality inconsistently. This deepens public distrust and weakens reform incentives...

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 10

In 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...

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 10

🔔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

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 8

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

BiEPAG - Mining in the Western Balkans - The Rise of Dangerous Transactionalism

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 8

"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

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 8

🔈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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Protecting the environment in the Western Balkans - K2.0

Industry, resource exploitation, and construction in protected areas are threatening both public health and the environment across the region.

kosovotwopointzero.com

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 7

"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."

Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 7

"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."

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Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) @biepag.bsky.social · Jul 7

"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."

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