The Balkans «brain drain» – its meaning and implications
The Balkans «brain drain» – its meaning and implications

Summary/Abstract: To illustrate our point, it is not realistic to argue, expect or believe, in the current Balkan context, that the region, collectively or individually, should legally prohibit any kind of refugees. Currently, immigration policy, especially in the US, supports such logic. Balkan countries today, primarily the former communist ones, are doing exactly what is asked of them since communism collapsed over fourteen years ago: they are pursuing pro-market, pro-European reforms with the intent of joining the EU. The whole purpose of the EU is to promote a kind of ‘United States of Europe’. This would be carried out by applying what has been termed the ‘Bruxelles Consensus’ in such a way as to apply EU capital concerning a workable European recovery founded on different socio-economic bases, i.e. open borders, reduced transaction costs for business, a European-sponsored policy of reducing structural gaps between regions and, above all, promoting a growing and open migration in both directions, i.e. poor to rich and rich to poor. Therefore, it makes no sense, as some or many have argued, to limit or restrict the so-called ‘higher trained’ from leaving Bosnia, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, among others, to live and work within the EU.

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