Listen "New chaos in the Balkans: what role left for the EU?"
Episode Synopsis
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region.The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.To find out more, read ECFR's publication, "Return to instability: How migration and great power politics threaten the Western Balkans" here: http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/return_to_instability_6045Bookshelf:Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Dubravka Ugrešić, Baba Yaga Laid an EggAnne-Marie Slaughter, The Chessboard and the Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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