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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
🔔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 blog
by @jomarovic.bsky.social

🔹In Search of Lost Regional Solidarity - or, Who’s Afraid of Montenegro in the EU?

"Montenegro’s progress is not a threat to its neighbors;
it's a test of whether the idea of a common EU future for the Western Balkans still holds".

🔗 tinyurl.com/488wnvwu
October 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
ℹ️At our yesterday's panel at
Europe House in Podgorica, BiEPAG experts, media & diplomats agreed: now is the moment to push forward reforms in #Montenegro & seize the geopolitical chance!

🎯🔹Support is high🔹 Mistakes are costly🔹EU window of opportunity won't stay open forever
September 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🔔Read the new BiEPAG blog👇

🔷Albania’s AI Minister Dilemma: Fighting Corruption or Strengthening Authoritarianism?

✍️ @gresahasa.bsky.social

"The appointment of #Diella was made without constitutional basis, since #Albania has no legal provisions for an AI minister"

🔗 tinyurl.com/4v6x4ycd
September 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📣Join us for our upcoming BiEPAG event in Podgorica

🔹 Montenegro at the Crossroads: Driving EU Integration in the Western Balkans

📅 Thursday, 25 September 2025
⏲️ 15:00 - 16:30
📍 Europe House, Podgorica

#Montenegro
#EUAccession
#EUEnlargement
#WesternBalkans #EU
September 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🔔New BiEPAG blog

✍️Author: BiEPAG's Programme Manager
Samir Beharić

🔷Eleventh Stage of Genocide: Srebrenica Is Remembered Once a Year, Denial Happens Every Day

Read it at👇
tinyurl.com/49dvdr3w

#Srebrenica #Srebrenica30
#SrebrenicaGenocide
#BosniaandHerzegovina #EU
July 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
🔔BiEPAG policy brief by @jomarovic.bsky.social

"From Norms to Noise: Why the EU Talks Reform but Fuels Decline in the Balkans" offers a timely and sharp analysis of the EU’s approach to enlargement in the Western Balkans, highlighting inconsistencies between rhetoric and practice.

#EUEnlargement
July 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"According to Džihić, governance failures, combined with state capture and corruption, risk turning the region into what some critics have called “Europe’s future mining colony.”

#Environment #Minning
#CriticalRawMaterials #Lithium
#EU #WesternBalkans #EUEnlargement
July 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
🔊New BiEPAG blog by Alessandro Ieranò

🔹When Authoritarianism Turns Uncompetitive: Local Elections at the Crossroads of Serbian Democracy
likely lose power to genuine democratic change."

#LocalElections #Serbia
#Kosjerić #Zaječar #Vučić #EU
#WesternBalkans

Read it at👇
biepag.eu/blog/when-au...
July 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🔔Ep.16 of Seriously Balkans - The #BiEPAGtalks

🔷The Evolving Role of the European Political Community

Host: Donika Emini, BiEPAG member
Guests:
Odeta Barbullushi, Resident Professor @collegeofeurope
and BiEPAG member
Tristan Aureau, Director, Centre for Analysis, Planning and Strategy, MFA France
June 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
📥 Access the full publication in English and B/C/S at: biepag.eu/publications

#EDI2025 #BiEPAG
#WesternBalkans #Mining
#EnvironmentalJustice
#CriticalRawMaterialsAct
#Democracy #EU #EUCommission

🔗https://biepag.eu/publication/mining-in-the-western-balkans-the-rise-of-dangerous-transactionalism
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This trend undermines democratic reforms and fuels state capture, as seen in the revival of controversial mining projects like #RioTinto’s in #Serbia.

The brief calls for a return to values-based engagement and warns of the long-term risks of short-term economic pragmatism.
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The brief outlines how the #EU’s increasing interest in critical raw materials - particularly #lithium - has led to a shift toward transactional partnerships with governments in the region.

#CriticalRawMaterialsAct
#EUCommission #WesternBalkans
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
As part of the convention, BiEPAG member
@vedrandzihic.bsky.social presented his new policy brief:

🔹“The Rise of Dangerous Transactionalism:
Mining in the Western Balkans.”
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🔉 BiEPAG was actively represented at the recent Engaged Democracy Initiative (EDI) Convention Vol. 3 in Skopje (May 21-23),
which brought together over 100 regional actors to discuss key issues for the #WesternBalkans, as

#environment
#civicengagement
#media
#decentwork
#humanrights.
June 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🔸Odeta Barbullushi

Resident Professor @collegeofeurope.bsky.social
Tirana campus

ℹ️https://biepag.eu/member/odeta-barbullushi
June 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🔹Nikola Burazer

Programme Director at the Centre for Contemporary Politics @csp_ccp and the Executive Editor of
European Western Balkans.

ℹ️https://biepag.eu/member/nikola-burazer
June 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🔸Jelena Vasiljević

Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade

ℹ️https://biepag.eu/member/jelena-vasiljevic-1
June 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🔹Giorgio Fruscione

Research Fellow at the Italian institute for international political studies @ispionline.bsky.social

ℹ️https://biepag.eu/member/giorgio-fruscione
June 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM