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The bad habits of a hybrid regime – When everything else fails, blame the EU! Author: Gjergji Vurmo *This Op-Ed that was originally published in www.europeanwesternbalkans.com on 10 December 2020. The EU summit will likely skip the topic of enlargement in the German Presidency’s Conclusions later this week. As North …

Policy Forum: Reforming EU enlargement – Tirana’s perspective   Tirana, 12 December 2019 – The Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) organized a policy forum “Reforming EU enlargement – Tirana’s perspective” to discuss preferred and realistic scenarios for EU accession of the Western Balkans. The event generated a discussion among policy and political …

Rule of law is not a panacea: Resolving post-war inter-ethnic conflicts is central to Western Balkans stability and cooperation *This article was originally published in Finnish in the fall 2019 edition of foreign affairs magazine Ulkopolitiikka.   Author: Alban Dafa The October 2019 ‘non-decision’ of the European Council on opening accession …

Analysis: The uncertainty of EU enlargement June 2019 – In his “Brief history of time” Stephen Hawking argues that Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle is a fundamental feature of the universe we live in”. In Hawking’s words – we can tell how the universe will develop if we know its state at …

Europeanization blowback: the stampede to join the EU and the Albanian institutional crisis  Author: Alban Dafa Shuttle lobbying June 2019 – The warm Albanian winds of early June seem to have pushed both the Albanian government and the opposition towards the cooling winds of Berlin and The Hague. They have been on …

EU and Albanian think tanks exchange perspectives on Albania’s Europeanization process Tirana, 30 April 2019 – Last week, IDM hosted the first event of the Policy Forum “Europeanization beyond process” series that aims to drive the exchange of ideas and perspectives covering important issues in the process of Europeanization. The …

Albania and the Geopolitics of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline: Regional and Domestic Dimensions September 2018 – The Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) initiative was launched by the European Union (EU) in 2008 with the aim of developing a new supply route for Caspian and Middle Eastern gas to European markets and reducing the …