EU SOLUTIONS TO THE BALKAN PROBLEMS
FEBRUARY 10, 2008
By Joris GJATA Research Assistant at EWS
The European Union is actually involved in the Balkans with various instruments, many of them specifically tailored for the region. Still, its policies are deficient in addressing some of the most important problems of these countries and even risk creating new divisions within the region. The EU tools offer no solution to problems of ethnicity, corruption and organized crime even though they encourage domestic reforms.detail >