The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG) published a new policy brief on the Western Balkans and the EU, titled “Beyond the Autopilot Mode”. This policy brief addresses the EU’s drained transformative leverage towards Western Balkan accession countries, on-going political tensions in Montenegro, the agonizing economic situation in the region, the main outputs of the Vienna EU-Western Balkans Summit, the Declaration on the Solution of Bilateral Disputes in the region, redesigned accession countries’ Progress Reports, and the impact of the refugee crisis on the Western Balkans region. The brief is available for download here.
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