Manifesto: Closing a Century of European Civil Wars by Getting the Balkans into the EU on July 28th 2014
Manifesto: Closing a Century of European Civil Wars by Getting the Balkans into the EU on July 28th 2014

Summary/Abstract: If there is one possible enlargement, which directly fits with the original rationale of the European integration process started after World War II whose aim was to prevent European wars to come back, it definitely is the enlargement to the Balkans. And on July 28th 2014, in Sarajevo, the EU and the Balkan countries may have a unique opportunity to conclude the currently unfinished business of closing a century of European civil wars. It was indeed in this very town where the deadly spiral of European 20th century wars was initiated on July 28th 1914. It may, it should in my opinion, bring it to its end in this very same town, exactly 100 years later, by celebrating the decision to accept all remaining Balkan countries within the EU, and by doing so achieving the original EU dream of bringing together all former European enemies within a single common peaceful political entity.

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