1. The Berlin Process in the Western Balkans
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Vulović, Marina and Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik -SWP- Deutsches Institut für Internationale Politik und Sicherheit
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Berlin Process ,European Politics ,Politikwissenschaft ,Kosovo ,Zivilgesellschaft ,Wirtschaftsentwicklung ,Europapolitik ,Southeastern Europe ,europäische Integration ,Political science ,civil society ,North Macedonia Common Regional Market (CRM) ,economic development (on national level) ,Bosnia and Herzegovina ,Balkan ,Binnenmarktorientierte Entwicklungsstrategie ,Regionale strategische Konzeption ,Regionale internationale Wirtschaftszusammenarbeit ,Regionale Wirtschaftskooperation ,Erweiterung von und Beitritt zu internationalem Akteur ,Binnenmarkt ,Civil Society & Think Tank Forum ,Western Balkans ,Montenegro ,ddc:320 ,Albania ,Regional Economic Area (REA) ,domestic market ,Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF) ,EU expansion ,EU ,European integration ,Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) ,Südosteuropa ,EU accession ,Serbia ,EU-Erweiterung - Abstract
The Western Balkans should join the European Union (EU) "as soon as possible", according to statements by the Chancellor of Germany at the Berlin Process summit in early November 2022. The Berlin Process consists of a series of events and meetings that have taken place annually since 2014 between individual EU member states and the countries of the Western Balkans. It differs from other EU initiatives in that international financial and EU institutions are involved alongside individual EU states, such as Germany as the format's initiator, and it primarily addresses issues of economic and regional cooperation. Although the Berlin Process has already produced many ambitious ideas, such as the common regional market, the implementation of the agreements by the Western Balkan states has often stalled. In the future, Germany and the EU should insist more emphatically on the implementation of adopted agreements, because the Berlin Process has the potential to restore the decliningress towards disarmament is good news. For Germany's National Security Strategy (NSS), it means that greater concessions to advocates of the TPNW are not necessary to protect the NPT.
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- 2022
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