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 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.
In the fifth 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 asks if Montenegro, the current accession front-runner, could break away from the Western Balkan Six and serve as a model for EU accession policy and practice. She is joined by Frauke Seebass, “Balkan Hub” project manager at the German Council on Foreign Relations and Jovana Marović, former deputy prime minister and former minister of European affairs in Montenegro.
