EU vetoes on Balkan integration - Opinion Piece

Edmund Ekrem Krasniqi - "Time to end EU vetoes on Balkan integration", Opinion Piece, EU Observer - Edmund Ekrem Krasniqi is a Kosovar journalist:

"The key to unlocking EU integration in the Western Balkans lies in the EU treaty - abolition of the unanimity rule on enlargement...In the current treaty, all major steps in the enlargement process are subject to 28 potential vetoes. That means that none of the six Balkan EU hopefuls will become members on the visible horizon, not due to lack of reform, but due to political deadlocks".

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Russia's Bosnia Gambit, Intrigue in the Balkans, Jasmin Mujanovic, Foreign Affairs


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