The aim of this paper is to look at the reconciliation process in the Western Balkans in the light of the German-Polish reconciliation. This is why the paper starts with a historical overview of the German-Polish reconciliation. It then continues with an overview of how far the Western Balkans reconciled and sketches the main challenges. Despite [...]
On 5 February, the Commission launched the Communication on “Strengthening the accession process: A credible EU perspective for the Western Balkans”. It was endorsed by the Council on 25th of March 2020, with the aim to drive forward the EU accession process, by making it more credible, more dynamic and predictable. Has this been the case? [...]
On 28 January 2022, The European Movement in Serbia, together with the representatives of the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” – Skopje (IDSCS) and Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), attended the final event of the pilot phase of the Think Balkans project titled “Regional cooperation in the Western Balkan and EU accession” in Warsaw, Poland. At [...]
From 17 to 21 January 2022, The European Movement in Serbia, the Institute for Democracy in Skopje (IDSCS) and the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS) participated, together with representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo * and Northern Macedonia, in a study visit to Slovakia within the regional [...]
On September 20, 2021, the European Movement in Serbia was visited by Mr. Thomas Bickl, Political Adviser of the Secretariat of the European People's Party (Group of Christian Democrats) in the European Parliament and researcher in the area of bilateral disputes related to the EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. His book on the border dispute [...]
On Saturday, September 4th, the 11th generation of mentors will continue their work on the mentoring program “Share Your Knowledge”, this time in the form of a study visit to the Women’s Center of Uzice. As part of the study visit to the Women's Center Uzice, participants will have the opportunity to get acquainted with a [...]
On July 24, 2021, during a regular assembly of the National Youth Council of Serbia (KOMS), the European Movement in Serbia (EMinS), as well as four other organizations, gained the status of a full member of this association. Additionally, KOMS also accepted 14 other organizations with the status of associate member. The procedure of gaining membership [...]
We would like to inform you that the Twitter account of the Vicinity portal (www.okruzenje.net) has been suspended on May 18 this year. We used all available appeal options, but unfortunately, the account has remained suspended to this day. Without intending to interfere in Twitter's business policy and analyze the criteria it uses to suspend an [...]
On July 10, 2021, the first in-person meeting of the 11th generation of “Share Your Knowledge” program mentors was successfully organized in the premises of Belgrade’s KC “Grad”. Due to the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus, the previous meetings, workshops and meetings took place via online platform, so this event had significance for all present [...]
How is corruption recognized in the management of the public good and whether Serbia’s EU accession can actually help defend it, were the questions of yesterday’s debate titled “Captured Public Good in a Captured State”, organized by the European Movement in Serbia and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Ivana Racic, program coordinator of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, [...]
