Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256485 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 53/2017
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
The European Commission will unveil its new EU Enlargement Strategy on February 6th, 2018. Since relations with Turkey have deteriorated markedly, only the Western Balkan states remain candidates for EU membership. The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, has stated the European Commission's intention to ensure that the Western Balkan countries are on an "irreversible" track to membership in the Union before the end of its mandate in 2019. Unless the new Enlargement Strategy offers a realistic plan to tackle the lack of economic growth and social progress in the region, it will be another futile institutional exercise because democracy, the rule of law and other basic distinctions of "Europeanness" cannot make lasting inroads into the enduring poverty in the Western Balkans.
Document Type: 
Research Report

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