The current challenges of the European Union's enlargement to the Western Balkans are a good opportunity to rethink our own efforts towards the realization of the rule of law. This was one of the conclusions of the discussion "What can we do for the rule of law in the Western Balkans in 2020?" in which BCSP Director Igor Bandovic  participated. The event was held on 20 November 2019 in ...

Academic Event at this year’s BSF was dedicated to answering the question how conflict-sensitive is the EU crisis response. Participants concluded that the EU shifted to a more pragmatic approach and improved its crisis response capacities, but that it needs to learn from both successes and failures more quickly. It was agreed that the local has to be included on different levels, but with re-examining what ’local’ means. “The ...

Political upheavals that have taken place in the EU and the U.S. and their impact on regional relations in South East Europe were the main topics of 34th Partnership for Peace Consortium Workshop named “South East Europe: Facing Western Upheavals and Regional Backslide”, held in Reichenau in Austria. This event has gathered numerous representatives of the governments, civil sector and academia from the Western Balkans and the EU. It ...

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy demands the resignations of the Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Acting Police Director Vladimir Rebic for omissions in the work of the police during the demolitions in the Herzegovacka street area of Belgrade’s Savamala district on the night of April 24, 2016. If the official investigation concludes that “the top of the police” ordered Belgrade police officials not to react to citizens' calls, BCSP ...

There is a solid legal framework for the rule of law in the region, but the implementation is still lagging behind, which is why citizens do not see the benefits of the European integration - it was pointed out at the panel discussion "The Rule of Law or the Law of Unrulable: The View from the Western Balkans". At the panel discussion organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security ...