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Kosovo Leads the Western Balkans in Rule of Law


Government at a Glance: Western Balkans - OECD

Nevertheless, life expectancy is still four years shorter than in OECD-EU countries, varying from 72 years in Kosovo to 78 years in Albania. Student performance ...

Political quotas and ethnic engineering in the Western Balkans

In Kosovo, 20 out of the parliament's 120 seats are allocated to minorities, including 10 for the Serbs and the rest for the Bosniaks, Egyptians ...

Supporting a European perspective for the Western Balkans

73. According to the Commission, Serbia's progress on the rule of law and the normalisation of relations with Kosovo is essential and will determine the overall ...

Investing to Strengthen the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans

The efforts of the Western Balkans to strengthen the rule of law haves received a boost by the completion of several projects under the WBIF. · First maximum- ...

Western Balkans: Looking From the Outside In - The Globalist

Kosovo has also been promised visa liberalization in the Schengen area. That move is conditioned upon reform in the rule of law and the fight ...

Only Democracy Can Bring Stability to the Balkans - War on the Rocks

Kosovo's latest crisis is another reminder of what Europe has gotten wrong in the Balkans. For the last 15 years, Western leaders and ...

(PDF) Pre-enlargement Reform Failures in the Western Balkans

the rule of law greatly increased. This increase materialized in two main areas: 1. ... 38 Nacionalni Konvent o Evropskoj Uniji (2024). 39 Ministry of Justice of ...

The future of 20 million people in the six Western Balkans States. A ...

... European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. (EULEX). UNMIK is quarterly ... This leads to the question of whether the Western Balkan states are generally ...

Western Balkans: Seizing Opportunities, Expanding Influence and ...

Instead of tackling systematic reform, the political elites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and Albania ...

Western Balkan Foreign and Security Ties with External Actors

By closely coordinating its diplomatic efforts with Russia and others, Serbia was also able to prevent Kosovo from becoming a member of the ...

The influence of external actors in the Western Balkans

Two EU missions are currently operating in Kosovo: the Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) and the Office of the European Union/EU Special Representative in. Kosovo ( ...

Judy Asks: Has the EU Lost the Western Balkans? - Carnegie Europe

... Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia. ... The candidate countries have to seriously engage in rule of law and democratic institution strengthening and ...

How to Foster the Rule of Law in the Western Balkans: 10 Notes to ...

This also entails greater EU dedication that would lead to improved conditionality and tools to monitor reforms. While adoption of regulations is the easiest ...

Judicial Independence in the Western Balkans:

... rule of law reform in places further away from candidacy such as Kosovo. The ongoing focus on strengthening the Kosovo Judicial Institute in ...

INL Assistant Secretary Johnson Travels to Bulgaria, Brussels and ...

... Western Balkans, and encourage Bulgaria to ... Assistant Secretary Johnson will lead ... Kosovo in supporting the rule of law, while emphasizing the U.S. pledge to ...

Legal and Political Contradictions in Kosovo: Limits of the Brussels ...

Drawing from the indisputable achievements of the EU, the article argues that there is a “silent” consensus among the actors (Kosovo, Kosovo Serbs, and Serbia) ...

The Plight of the Western Balkans Is a Wake-up Call for Europe

... rule of law. The outbreak of the coronavirus crisis has meanwhile increased the presence of other geopolitical players in the region, mainly ...

FoREign PoliCiES in WESTERn BalkanS

Kosovo*'s status in relation to the EU is that it is an SAA signatory and a potential membership candidate. The EULEX mission (an EU rule of law mission) in ...

Roma rights slides right off the EU Enlargement agenda

... Western Balkans. Beyond the lofty rhetoric, the 'fundamentals first' principle that privileged human rights and the rule of law is now far ...

EU leader denounces Russia's 'hybrid war' aiming to destabilize ...

Von der Leyen was in Kosovo as part of a trip this week to aspiring EU member states in the Western Balkans to assure them that enlargement ...