The year after: assessing the social achievements of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe
The year after: assessing the social achievements of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I will focus on an analysis of the achievements of the Stability Pact with regard to the issues of social and socio-economic development, the construction of democratic societies and proceedings against unemployment and corruption. A comprehensive analysis of the initiatives under all three Working Tables would clearly exceed the framework of this paper and bypass its central purpose. The following section will briefly familiarise the reader with the basic structures of the Pact and elucidate the approach of assessing the state of the social development projects referred to in this article. The section will also highlight the most pressing socio-economic problems in the region, surveying those issues that must be addressed via the concept of comprehensive socio-reconstruction. Having explored both the available instruments of the Stability Pact and the problems demanding primary attention, section three will turn to analyse the concrete proceedings of the Stability Pact by exploring those projects, which are scheduled for immediate implementation on the ground. The third section will assess how the concrete proceedings of the Pact match its initial pretensions and spotlight the areas which require further improvement if the ambitious stabilisation process is to succeed.

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