This EU to go special series of the Jacques Delors Centre is produced with Henrik Enderlein Fellow Besa Shahini, former Minister for Education, Sports and Youth in the Republic of Albania. This podcast miniseries is exploring the EU accession process in the Western Balkans and the lessons for EU enlargement policy.
In the first episode of Henrik Enderlein Fellow Besa Shahini’s podcast miniseries exploring the EU accession process in the Western Balkans and the lessons for EU enlargement policy, she talks to Thu Nguyen and Johannes Lindner about the costs and necessary reforms tied to the next round of enlargement.
In the second episode of Henrik Enderlein Fellow Besa Shahini’s podcast miniseries exploring the EU accession process in the Western Balkans and the lessons for EU enlargement policy, she discusses the EU’s rule of law focus within candidate countries, based on the example of Albania, with Dr Andi Hoxhaj OBE, Lecturer in Law at University College London.
In the third episode of Henrik Enderlein Fellow Besa Shahini’s podcast miniseries exploring the EU accession process in the Western Balkans and the lessons for EU enlargement policy, she talks to Adnan (Adi) Ćerimagić, Senior Analyst for the Western Balkans at ESI, about Bosnia and Herzegovina’s long-drawn path to EU accession and its problematic constitutional setup.
In the fourth episode of Henrik Enderlein Fellow Besa Shahini’s podcast miniseries exploring the EU accession process in the Western Balkans and the lessons for EU enlargement policy, she is joined by Agon Maliqi, a political analyst from Kosovo, and Frauke Seebass, “Balkan Hub” project manager at the German Council on Foreign Relations, to discuss the need for recognition of Kosovo’s independence, essential for EU accession.