SERBIA: THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND ITS EUROPEAN PATH
SERBIA: THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND ITS EUROPEAN PATH

Summary/Abstract: The EU is in the process of adjusting its enlargement policy to the new geopolitical environ¬ment and is developing a new accession process. There are two approaches, French and Ger¬man. President Macron suggests the creation of a “geopolitical community” that will join the EU, while Germany’s priority is the European Union’s enlargement policy and work on the strengthening of cooperation among the Western Balkan countries. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has put the security issue in the foreground and made the EU’s approach to security in its eastern neighbourhood, which is characterized by restraint and strategic ambiguity, unsustainable in the new circumstances. Serbia still hopes to gain dominance in the region as part of the Open Balkan project, which is also increasingly less certain due to opposition from Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo, which prefer the revival of the Berlin process under Chancellor Scholz’s supervision. In addition, the neighbours still do not trust Serbia’s intentions, which is intensively arming itself. Accession to the European Union is the geopolitical inevitability of the whole Western Balkans given Russia’s constant attempts to destabilize it. That is why all doubts about the policy of en-largement to the Western Balkans indicate that, despite all promises, the Balkans is still on ice.

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