Eurocentrism and the Obstacles for Entrance of Western Balkans and Turkey in the European Union
Eurocentrism and the Obstacles for Entrance of Western Balkans and Turkey in the European Union

Summary/Abstract: Turkey and Western Balkans, which includes Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, as candidate and potential candidate countries, explicitly declare their will and intention to join the European Union. Unfortunately, the severe standards and criteria which are required for fulfillment from these countries are not the only obstacles for their membership in EU, i.e. the so-called eurocentrism, the concentration of the decision-making and rule-making power in several states, the euroscepticism in some EU countries etc., are also obstacles for Western Balkans and Turkey towards their membership in the European Union. For these reasons, the main goal of this paper will be to identify which are the biggest obstacles for entrance of Western Balkans and Turkey in the European Union, which are the consequences of the eurocentrism for the enlargement policy of EU and to determine a “model” for a faster integration of the candidate and potential candidate countries into European Union, without jeopardizing the interests of the older EU countries, and relativizing the influence of the eurocentrism for the enlargement of the Union, at the same time. The comparative method, but also the inductive and deductive methods will be used in this paper.

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