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The traditional narrative in the new democracies of Southeast Europe (SEE) – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia – frequently blames young people for their precarious situation. However, these states and societies as a whole have not met the challenge of providing equal opportunities for the development of youth. Disillusionment and a sense of powerlessness deprive youth of their future and may undermine the prospects of SEE societies in general.


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| Publication, Publication Political Trends & Dynamics

2017 was a major year in the advancement of women’s issues and women’s causes, indeed, one of the most significant in decades. The #MeToo campaign, and the campaigns which preceded it, cast into sharp relief the endemic culture of sexual assault and abuse that permeates much of the professional world. And while the focus was primarily on Hollywood and the media and entertainment sector, conditions are, if anything worse, for working women outside the limelight.


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| Publication, Publication Progressive Peace Policy

Most of Albanian citizens asked in a national poll in 2013 about whether Greece would like to see Albania in the European Union answered no, an answer that might sound expected in the context

of the difficult relationships but that actually sounds perplexing when compared to the past track record of relevant developments.


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| Publication, Publication Socio-ecological transformation in SEE

Serbia is in a position to pursue long-term sustainable ‘green growth’ strategies. Society in

Serbia can be mobilized around this goal, since green growth strategies are able to

simultaneously deliver on GDP growth, impairment of regional disparities and employment

creation, generating numerous, yet dispersed winners. Such development can be achieved

only as a path that genuinely responds to the needs of Serbian citizens. Public participation

in policy making, implementation, monitoring and evaluation are essential if such a policy is

to be pursued.


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Launched in 2014 following the Juncker Declaration on enlargement and against the backdrop of key geopolitical challenges at the EU’s doorstep, the Berlin process is an initiative aimed at maintaining the momentum of European integration in the Western Balkans. Initially limited in time (2014-2018) and in scope, it has spread and become a multifaceted process with no foreseeable ending. Until now, it has only involved a few Member States (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia and more recently the UK), the 6 Western Balkan states aspiring to join the EU (i.e. the so-called WB6 group consisting of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, …


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| Publication, Publication Progressive Peace Policy, Publication Political Trends & Dynamics

Almost three decades ago, at a time when the rest of Europe was reveling in the peaceful conclusion of the Cold War, the former Yugoslavia imploded into a frenzy of internecine warfare and the consequences still weigh on the region. Yet while the war was still raging, on 25 May 1993, the UN Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with an authority to prosecute and try individuals on four categories of offenses: grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide and crimes against humanity in (the now former) Yugoslavia.


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The UK Summit in 2018 will be the last one of the current cycle of Western Balkans Summits,

dubbed “the Berlin Process”. Started in 2014 in Berlin, this process has provided a unique

contribution to WB6 regional cooperation, to investments in regional connectivity infrastructure,

and to the reforms engaged by WB6.


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| Publication, Publication Social and Economic Justice

The Poll on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) conducted in Serbia in 2013, strikingly shows that inequality in Serbia is much larger than in any other EU country.


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