Many of the region’s politicians are now beginning to wonder out loud – and often opportunistically – just what the benefits of a European future really are.
For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has become the lowest common denominator for rightwing populist politics in many of the 28 member states.
It is
urgently necessary to mobilise, not only against the existing form of
negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia, but also against the eventual agreement,
and possible result of, the present negotiations.
Political and judicial authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
and in Serbia must improve their cooperation to end impunity, by identifying
and punishing war criminals.
As Belgrade goes to the polls in today's municipal elections, the
state is playing a fundamental role in the transition to neoliberal economics. Hence the undemocratic procedures bedevilling 'The Project'.