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EU integration can improve relations between Belgrade, Pristina and Tirana, and the maintenance of existing stereotypes will downgrade them – this is the conclusion of the expert discussion about the future of relations between the three communities organized on 9th September 2013. by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

The coalition prEUgovor has been monitoring Serbia’s progress in regard to the adherence to political criteria for EU membership and policies covered under Chapters 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights) and 24 (Justice, Freedom and Security) of the European acquis in the negotiation process.

At the Directorate for the Enlargement of the European Commission, a team of researchers from the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) presented the initial findings of the "Towards Europeanization: Monitoring established policies and practices in areas related to the asylum and readmission in the Serbian Republic" report.

Together with its partner organizations the BCSP will present results of "People’s Peacemaking Perspective" project to the European Parliament, DG Enlargement and European External Action Service. The results will be also presented to the representatives of think-tank organizations in Brussels.

"School for European Security" was continued on June 27 and 28 with the planned simulation of decision making in the Council of the EU. It was the first simulation of its kind in Serbia, focusing on problems rising in the second pillar of the EU - its common foreign and security policy. Students of CCMR's School for European Security and "Diplomacy in Practice" programme organised by European Movement in Serbia ...

Antonio Missiroli, director of studies in the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) presented a lecture on the European Security Strategy (ESS), observed six years later, in a changed international context. The issue has, however, served only as a point of departure for further discussion of EU’s role in the world today. Mr. Missiroli's lecture was organised within the educational project "School for European Security". Centre’s guest began by analysing ...

On February 9th, Natasa Dragojlovic, expert of the European Movement in Serbia presented the historical development and institutional framework of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). As the defining moments in development of CFSP, Natasa singled out the adoption of Single European Act, Maastricht Treaty and Amsterdam Treaty. Natasa's opening claim how EU presents the "most sucessful peace project in Europe's history" was not disputed, however, many of the ...

Miroslav Hadžić, president of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations Managerial Board, presented on Monday, February 23 a lecture within the programme "School for European Security" entitled "The Reach of Euro Atlantic Interventionism". He opened his lecture discussing the contents and meaning of the very notion of terms, interventionismand crisis. The concept of crisis management makes for the birth-place of interventionism, believes Hadzic. "Crisis management", by the way, "is not always the part of the solution, but is however, part of the problem". As ...

Presentation of the publication “Lessons Learned: Serbia and Slovakia in the processes of security sector reform and Euro Atlantic Integration”, co-organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, and Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, Bratislava, was presented on Monday, December 15th, in the Library of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. Deputy Chief of Mission of Slovak Republic to Serbia, Jan Psenica and Mihajlo Basara, Director of the MoD ...