Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
banner
biepag.bsky.social
Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
@biepag.bsky.social
Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) is a group of policy analysts, scholars and researchers from Western Balkans and EU.

ℹ️ www.biepag.eu
🔔 New BiEPAG blog

✍️ Donika Emini
🔹 Snap Election in Kosovo: The one when Vetëvendosje takes it all

Kosovo’s snap elections ended a year of political deadlock, delivering Vetëvendosje a rare one-party majority and reshaping the country’s political landscape.

📖 Read here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/5n9yvrvc
January 22, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Reposted by Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
Throughout 2025, Europe, and foremost the EU, have been sidelined as partners and often depicted as adversaries of the US. A new @biepag.bsky.social discussion explores the implications of this emerging transatlantic rift on the #WesternBalkans.
open.spotify.com/episode/4ntK...
Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks, episode 21
open.spotify.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:12 PM
🔔 Seriously Balkans – The BiEPAG Talks ep.21

🔹 The Western Balkans under Trump

🎙️ Our BiEPAG member @damirkapidzic.bsky.social
is hosting his guests:
🔸@filipejdus.bsky.social
🔸Biljana Kotevska

#WesternBalkans #TransatlanticRelations

👇 Tune in for more 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/4ntK...
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
🔔 This year's last episode is out

🎙️ Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG talks ep. 20

30 years after the Dayton Peace Agreement, a whole generation has grown up under a frozen constitutional system.
What does “Dayton” mean for those born after the war?

Listen here 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/6tUG...
December 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🔔Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG talks ep.19

🔹The predicament of media and press freedom in the Balkans

🎙️Our BiEPAG member Giorgio Fruscione
is hosting his guests:
Lejla Mazlic and @slobageorgiev.bsky.social

#MediaFreedom

👇Tune in for more on this topic👇
open.spotify.com/episode/5thu...
December 19, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🔔New BiEPAG policy brief:

🔹Resetting the EU’s Approach to Serbia:
Lessons from the 2024-25 Protests

📝Authors:
BiEPAG members
Nikola Burazer, Marina Vulović, and Jelena Vasiljević.

#Serbia #EU
#StudentProtests
#StudentLedProtests
#EUAccession

⬇️ tinyurl.com/ya2eyrk8
December 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🔔Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG talks ep.18

🔹A Change in #RepublikaSrpska?

🎙️Host
@damirkapidzic.bsky.social

Guests:
@dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social
University of Salzburg
@vedrandzihic.bsky.social
@infooiip.bsky.social / BiEPAG

#BiH #Dodik

🎧Tune in👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1GK0...
December 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣BiEPAG in the Media 📰

Our BiEPAG Member Richard Grieveson in an interview for the @newunionpost.bsky.social

🔹Full EU membership is the only “real game changer” for the Western Balkans’ economies

Read it at👇
newunionpost.eu/2025/11/25/w...

#SEPA #EUSingleMarket
#EU #WesternBalkans
Why the Western Balkans' economies need full EU membership
The positive approach of gradual integration of the Western Balkans into the Single Market also carries "the danger that it could become only that"
newunionpost.eu
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
.@jomarovic.bsky.social for @biepag.bsky.social:
"Years were lost. No — decades. Twenty-two years since the Thessaloniki promise, and the #WesternBalkans is still orbiting the EU like a satellite nobody wants to land."
www.biepag.eu/blog/why-the...
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In her latest BiEAPG blog, @jomarovic.bsky.social takes on the EU’s approach to the Western Balkans:

"For 30 years, the EU has promised the Western Balkans a European future — while quietly backtracking, shifting excuses, and delivering too little, too late."

Read here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/5arus2py
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Read the new BiEPAG blog by Lutjona Lula

Albania’s Gen Z overwhelmingly supports EU membership and expect integration to improve daily life.

But enthusiasm without knowledge is fragile: if reforms stall, optimism may turn into frustration.

📖Read here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/46jkeazw
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reposted by Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Agreement, ISPI has published a dossier "Dayton at Thirty: The Peace That Froze Bosnia".

It also includes my contribution on the lessons the world has (not) learned after the Srebrenica genocide:

www.ispionline.it/en/publicati...
Statehood after Genocide: Lessons from Bosnia | ISPI
Leggi l'articolo Statehood after Genocide: Lessons from Bosnia sul sito dell'ISPI.
www.ispionline.it
November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Reposted by Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
Despite the positive approach of gradual integration of the region into the Single Market, full membership is the only “real game changer” for the #WesternBalkans economies, says Richard Grieveson, Deputy Director at the @wiiw.ac.at and @biepag.bsky.social member

newunionpost.eu/2025/11/25/w...
Why the Western Balkans' economies need full EU membership
The positive approach of gradual integration of the Western Balkans into the Single Market also carries "the danger that it could become only that"
newunionpost.eu
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
In his new BiEPAG blog, @kurtbassuener.bsky.social takes on the shifting geopolitics around Bosnia:

US sanctions lifted, tone changed, and Europe suddenly exposed.

If the EU wants credibility, it must act — not wait.

Read it here: tinyurl.com/4hjxphnd
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Reposted by Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
Last week, the @eucrta.bsky.social together with @epc-official.bsky.social and @biepag.bsky.social organized a public discussion titled “Serbia one year into the student-led protests – Where to next and what role for the EU?”.

Key takeaways from the exchange👇
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🔔BiEPAG member @dimitarbechev.bsky.social
for @carnegieeurope.bsky.social

"The #WesternBalkans are on the path to become a net contributor to EU security, but much more needs to be done.

The 3 NATO members - Albania, North Macedonia, and Montenegro - should lead the way.

tinyurl.com/29cd6fj7
How the Western Balkans Can Contribute to European Defense
The Western Balkans’ defense industry offers Europe a chance to strengthen its security. But to become net contributors, governments across the region must modernize their militaries, attract investme...
carnegieendowment.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🔔Listen to the new ep.17 of
Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG talks

🔹Kosovo on the Edge: Democracy, Deadlock, and Geopolitics

BiEPAG's Donika Emina w/
🔹Ilir Deda Senior Research Fellow at KIPRED & Europe’s Futures Fellow
🔹Jovana Radosavljević, Executive Director of NSI

🎙️ tinyurl.com/2j74ap3t
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🔸How Montenegro Turned on Turkey - The Politics of Panic and Hate

✍️ blog by @jomarovic.bsky.social

𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚.

🔗 tinyurl.com/436kccd5

#Turkey #Montenegro #VisaRegime
#EU #WesternBalkans
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🔔BiEPAG member Frauke M. Seebass and @wouterzweers.bsky.social on the recent elections in Netherlands

🔶Do the Dutch election outcomes affect the #Netherlands position on #EUEnlargement?

🔎 possible coalitions, as well as the public perceptions and attitudes👇

🔗 www.biepag.eu/blog/do-the-...
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔔BiEPAG blog
✍️Egzona Bokshi

🔷You’re Not a Citizen, You’re a Journalist” - The Fall of #MediaFreedom in Kosovo

"In a healthy system, journalism is a profession, not an act of heroism. When courage replaces normalcy, you know the system has failed."

#Kosovo #Media

biepag.eu/blog/youre-n...
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🔔Our BiEPAG to the point is out!

🔹Reflections on the local elections in North Macedonia

🔶The biggest losers are the citizens - Low turnout (46%) reflects deep voter apathy and disillusionment.

Read the one-pager to get the whole picture👇

#Elections #NorthMacedonia

www.biepag.eu/biepag-to-th...
October 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
📰BiEPAG member Donika Emini in an interview for the @newunionpost.bsky.social

🔸Kosovo’s recognition and candidate status have been set back years by outstanding EU measures

#Kosovo #EU
#EUAccession
#EUEnlargement

Read it at👇
According to the Eurobarometer, 43% of citizens would support #Kosovo joining the EU, with surprising results from the 5 non-recogniser members. However, "recognisers can sometimes be more difficult in obstructing its path," warns Donika Emini (@biepag.bsky.social)

newunionpost.eu/2025/10/21/k...
Kosovo's recognition and EU candidate status are stuck
The EU's punitive measures show that the five non-recogniser countries are not the only obstacle to Kosovo's path, warns BiEPAG member Donika Emini
newunionpost.eu
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🔔BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social for
savremenapolitika.com

🔹Student list in Serbia is an extraordinary experiment in democracy

"The student movement does not offer a comprehensive political alternative, but return of politics to the public space."

savremenapolitika.com/biber-studen...
Biber: Studentska lista je izuzetan demokratski eksperiment - Savremena politika
Studentski pokret ne može ponuditi sveobuhvatnu političku alternativu, ali to ni nije potrebno. Ovo je borba koja ima za cilj da uspostavi osnovne uslove za politiku.
savremenapolitika.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Reposted by Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG)
Waarom Westelijke Balkanlanden de EU-toetreding van #Montenegro niet moeten vrezen maar steunen

europeanwesternbalkans.com/2025/10/13/w...
by @jomarovic.bsky.social in @biepag.bsky.social (republished on the European Western Balkans portal)
Who's afraid of Montenegro in the EU?
Montenegro seems to be caught in a kind of European delirium - ask the prime minister, a taxi driver, or even a five-year-old in the street, and they will tell you without hesitation that we are defin...
europeanwesternbalkans.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM