{image1} Radicalization, corruption, migration, organized crime, the Belgrade-Pristina conflict and state capture are the biggest challenges in the Western Balkans - this is one of the conclusions of the first "International Balkans Session" organized by the Institute for Higher National Defence Studies from France, which was held from 1 to 11 May 2019 in Paris. Participants from the countries of Southeastern Europe, including BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic, gathered ...

{image1} It is time for the measures from the Action Plan to be adapted and implemented in practice so that the citizens of Serbia feel the concrete benefits of European integration, it was emphasized at the meeting of the Working Group of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) on Chapter 24 and the Negotiating Group on Justice, Freedom and Security Issues Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) ...

For the sixth consecutive year, BCSP was voted as one of the best think tanks in the world on the research topics of defense and national security, and foreign policy and international relations. In the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) is the best ranked think-tank in Serbia and in the Western Balkans covering defense, national security, foreign policy and international ...

The first meeting of the working group of the National Convention on the EU with the new Assembly Defense and Internal Affairs Committee and the European Integration Committee was held on November 15th 2016, at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia

In recent years, there has been a change of actors involved in terrorist activities due to the consequences of globalization, while the main goal of terrorist activities - spreading the fear - remained the same.

At the meeting organized by BCSP was highlighted that the opening of Chapter 24 of the negotiations for Serbia’s membership in the European Union is possible in the first half of 2016.

It is of crucial importance in Serbia’s EU accession process, to include civil society organizations, accept their proposals, and enable them to directly influence creating of policies – concluded the participants of first EU-Serbia Civil society Joint Consultative Committee meeting.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), in cooperation with Ministry of Interior’s representatives, organized a workshop for the representatives of civil society organizations on preparation of National Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA).

The drafting process and the content of the Action Plan for Chapter 24 were a topic for the first time in the discussion that gathered the President of the Negotiating Team and coordinators for all 10 policies within the chapter, more than 20 CSO and a great number of media representatives, at the session of the National Convention’s Working Group for Chapter 24.