The Balkan Endgame
Over the last 20 years, the goal of EU membership has proved an invaluable asset for stabilizing, democratizing, and modernizing the western Balkans. Now it is up to the region's leaders to overcome the remaining obstacles, starting with an understanding between the governments of Serbia and Kosovo over Kosovar independence.
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ROME – Twenty years after the collapse of Yugoslavia and the communist regime in Albania, the western Balkans region is at a turning point once again. Slovenia is in the European Union, Croatia is very close to membership, and all of the region’s other countries have started along the EU path. Yet there remains a danger that this positive progress can still be undermined.