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Analyses | | Paulina Wankiewicz

The Dodik trial a test of strength against Serb separatism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Tensions are rising in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) over Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, an entity within BiH. On 26 February, the Court of BiH found him guilty, in the first instance, of failing to comply with decisions…
Analyses | | Paulina Wankiewicz

The Srebrenica resolution slim chances for reconciliation

The UN resolution on the Srebrenica genocide has sparked a series of tensions in the Western Balkans region. On 23 May the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the resolution been put forward by Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Germany and…
Analyses | | Marta Szpala

The political and economic consequences of the flood in the Balkans

The economic consequences of this disaster will be felt in Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina for many years, since neither of them has sufficient funds for reconstruction.
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

Chinas interest in investing in South-Eastern Europe still growing

On 19 October the Chinese corporation China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group entered into an agreement for access to confidential information concerning the development of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. During that same week,…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

The third energy package to be introduced in the Balkan states Moldova and Ukraine by 2015

Judging from the experience of how the third energy package was adopted in EU member states, it will be extremely difficult for the Energy Community states to implement these regulations within such a short timeframe.
OSW Commentary | | Marta Szpala

The Western Balkans deadlock in the EU enlargement process

Increasingly serious challenge for integrating the Balkan states is the EU's growing reluctance to enlarge any further. Among other measures, the EU states have blocked the formal acknowledgement of the integration progress, which has…
OSW Studies |

Review of the Economic Development in the Western Balkan States

Foreword Ten years after the end of the armed conflict, the Western Balkans are still being considered as the "land of the unsuccessful policies". Enormous financial and technical assistance transferred by the International Community has…
OSW Studies | | Stanisław Tekieli

European Prospects of the Western Balkans

European leaders promised the Western Balkan states during the EU summit in Thessaloniki in June 2003 that their future was within the united Europe, and that each of them could prospectively become an EU member.