Serbia News & Analysis

The EU should stop taking its influence in the Western Balkans for granted and re-commit to economic engagement with the region.

The EU’s glacial enlargement process may fall foul to outside geopolitical players in the Western Balkans.

Turkey is reestablishing ties in a frontier of the former Ottoman Empire, but in the Western Balkans it finds a field that’s already crowded with outside powers vyign for influence.

Russia will keep making inroads in the Balkans so long as Brussels and Washington ignore the region.

The EU is just one of the geopolitical options on the table for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Slovenia and Croatia’s border spat over the Bay of Piran doesn’t bode well for EU-directed conflict resolution in the Balkans.

Instability within the Middle East could be coming to Europe via the Western Balkans.

Although the arrest of Gen. Ratko Mladic may be a step toward Serbia’s accession to the EU, the country still has a long way to go – politically, economically and in winning hearts and minds.

This report examines the roles played by Western International Financial Institutions (IFIs), intelligence agencies, militaries and strategic interests in the break up of the Yugoslav Republic.

Serbia and Russia have refused to recognize Kosovo’s independence arguing the declaration is illegal and sets international precedent that is applicable to other breakaway regions including pro-Russian South Ossieta and Abkhazia in Georgia.