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.
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.
In the sixth 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 Wouter Zweers, research fellow at Clingendael's EU & Global Affairs Unit, and Lura Pollozhani, researcher at the University of Graz, about North Macedonia’s troubled path towards EU accession: Once considered a front-runner, the country lost its reform momentum due to the continuous blocking of its road towards EU accession.
In the seventh 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 Milena Mihajlović, co-founder and programme director of the European Policy Centre (CEP) to discuss Serbia’s path to EU accession and the Belgrade-based think tank’s proposals aiming to improve and give momentum to the EU accession process.
In the eighth and last 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 power of EU accession for economic transformation with Richard Grieveson, deputy director at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG).