Integrating the Weste Balkans into the EU:Overcoming Mutual Misperceptions (New Perspectives on South-East Europe)

by: Milica Uvalić (Editor)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 26 July 2023

Language: English

Print Length: 476 pages

ISBN-10: 3031322045

ISBN-13: 9783031322044

Book Description

Among the main stumbling blocks of European Union-Weste Balkan integration are the differences in perceptions on both sides. Today, the gap between what the Weste Balkan politicians and citizens think about the European Union and what the politicians and citizens in the EU member states think about the Weste Balkans is probably wider than ever. This volume offers fresh insights about these misperceptions and how to possibly bridge the gap. It examines perceptions about the region’s “European perspectives” both on the side of the six Weste Balkan countries - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia – and the key European Union member states (Italy, Germany, Croatia), inteational donors, USA. An analysis of the diverse views regarding the prospects of EU – Weste Balkan integration is today highly relevant, in view of the current uncertainties regarding European Union’s enlargement policy, particularly after the attack of Russia on Ukraine and candidate status granted to Ukraine and Moldova.