POLICY OPINION No 5 / MARCH 2018
POLICY OPINION No 5 / MARCH 2018

Author(s): Igor Novaković
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
Published by: ISAC - Centar za međunarodne i bezbednosne poslove
Keywords: Berlin Process; Bilateral Disputes; Western Balkans; European Integration; Good Neighbourly Relations; EU Enlargement Policy; Regional Stability
Summary/Abstract: One of the important elements of the Berlin Process, in political terms, is the Declaration on Bilateral Issues, signed at the 2015 Vienna Summit by the ministers of foreign affairs from the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo,Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia). The incentive came from the think tank BIEPAG, which was endorsed by the Summit’s host, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria. The foreign ministers committed their governments to address all of the open bilateral issues in the spirit of good neighborly relations and shared commitment to European integration, hence that they will not interfere, either directly or indirectly, in each other’s EU integration paths, and that they will seek to solve problems in other ways, including international arbitration. Although the initiative is in a sort of stalemate, there is a need for a fresh impetus which should come from the EU Member States.

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