Belgrade – ESI at regional conference on the latest strategy of the European Commission for the Western Balkans

Adnan Cerimagic (right). Photo: CEP

ESI analyst Adnan Cerimagic took part in a regional conference in Belgrade co-hosted by the Serbian think tank European Policy Centre (CEP), the Think for Europe Network and the European Commission's Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR) on "EU and the Western Balkans: Towards greater credibility and engagement on both sides".

Adnan spoke at the panel on "Rule of law promotion and enforcement in the Western Balkans: how effective is the EU in applying its conditionality mechanisms?" and presented ESI's latest reports and ideas on methodology used in the Commission's annual reports, the most recent European Commission's strategy for the Western Balkans and the future of the EU integration process in the Western Balkans. The conference was attended by representatives of the Western Balkans governments, the civic sector, embassies in Belgrade and DG NEAR.

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• ESI, "The Chapter Illusion – For Honesty and Clearity in EU-Turkey relations", 15 May 2017.
• Blijesak (Bosnian news portal), "Konferencija o EU integracijama u Mostaru: I dalje imamo perspektivu" ("Conference on EU integration process in Mostar: We continue to have membership perspective"), 29 March 2017.
• European Western Balkans, "Adnan Ćerimagić: The Idea that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Special Case Needs to be Changed", 12 December 2016.
• BiEPB, "The untold story behind Bosnia's EU membership application", 17 March 2016.
• Vijesti.ba (Bosnian news portal), "EU must accept its role both in the good and the bad processes that are happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina", 12 December 2015.
• ESI,  "Rankings that fail – Doing Business, Bosnia and Macedonia in 2015", 9 November 2015.
• ESI, "A reporting revolution? Towards a new generation of progress reports", 9 November 2015.
• Nezavisne novine (Bosnian daily), "Adnan Cerimagic (ESI): Dayton je svima i krivac i izgovor" ("Adnan Cerimagic (ESI): Everyone blames Dayton and use it as excuse"), 15 September 2015.
• ESI, "Measuring corruption – The case for deep analysis and a simple proposal", 19 March 2015.
• ESI, "Bosnia as Wunderkind of Doing Business. Outline of 14 steps to take – A Proposal to the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina", 19 March 2015.
• ESI, "Protests and Illusions – How Bosnia and Herzegovina lost a decade", 23 December 2014.
• Rumeli Observer, "Bosnians care – But will protests change things?", 23 December 2014.
• ESI, "Not for lack of trying. Chronology of efforts to solve Sejdic-Finci conundrum", October 2013.
• ESI, "Houdini in Bosnia. How to unlock the EU accession process", 17 October 2013.
• ESI, "Lost in the Bosnian labyrinth. Why the Sejdic-Finci case should not block an EU application", 7 October 2013.