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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 | | Marta Szpala, Wojciech Stanisławski

Bosnias chaos Causes of the political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina today

A new form of 'transformational crisis' has been observed in Bosnia and Herzegovina since at least 2005. Politicians representing the three major ethno-political communities (Bosnians, Croats and Serbs) have successively been raising…
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.
OSW Studies | | Stanisław Tekieli

Kosovo – the question of final status

In June 2003, during a meeting held in Saloniki, the leaders of European Union member states turned to the presidents and heads of the governments of five Western Balkans nations – Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro,…