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Analyses | | Mateusz Seroka

Montenegro Russia accused of attempting to organise a coup détat

According to the prosecutor, the coup was prepared at the Kremlin’s order by Russian nationalist groups, and one of the coup’s organisers was an Russian officer.

Analyses | | Mateusz Seroka

The parliamentary elections in Montenegro

The parliamentary elections in Montenegro were won by the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) under Prime Minister Milo Djukanović.

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Montenegros final stretch on the road to NATO

Montenegro’s accession to NATO will be the apogee of the pro-Western policy of their Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic who has been in power since 1991.

Analyses | | Marta Szpala

Decisions of the European Council on enlargement policy

The European Council has not taken a decision on whether to grant candidate status to Serbia, or on opening accession negotiations with Montenegro, despite the European Commission’s positive recommendations. Both issues will be…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

Chinas interest in investing in South-Eastern Europe still growing

On 19 October the Chinese corporation China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group entered into an agreement for access to confidential information concerning the development of the Cernavoda nuclear power plant in Romania. During that…
Analyses | | Tomasz Dąborowski, Marta Szpala

The third energy package to be introduced in the Balkan states Moldova and Ukraine by 2015

Judging from the experience of how the third energy package was adopted in EU member states, it will be extremely difficult for the Energy Community states to implement these regulations within such a short timeframe.
Analyses |

Montenegro a problematic EU candidate

On 17 December the Council of the EU officially granted Montenegro EU candidate status. This decision is a signal for the Balkan countries that the enlargement process is being continued. However, it cannot be expected that accession…
OSW Commentary | | Marta Szpala

The Western Balkans deadlock in the EU enlargement process

Increasingly serious challenge for integrating the Balkan states is the EU's growing reluctance to enlarge any further. Among other measures, the EU states have blocked the formal acknowledgement of the integration progress, which has…
OSW Studies |

Review of the Economic Development in the Western Balkan States

Foreword Ten years after the end of the armed conflict, the Western Balkans are still being considered as the "land of the unsuccessful policies". Enormous financial and technical assistance transferred by the International Community…

OSW Studies | | Stanisław Tekieli

European Prospects of the Western Balkans

European leaders promised the Western Balkan states during the EU summit in Thessaloniki in June 2003 that their future was within the united Europe, and that each of them could prospectively become an EU member.