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INFO   :::  Projects > Promoting Serbia's Transatlantic Integration - January 1 - December 31, 2011

PROMOTING SERBIA'S TRANSATLANTIC INTEGRATION
(January 1 - December 31, 2011)

The project is meant to help to build public and institutional support for the country's integration into the Euro-Atlantic community, offer rational arguments for strengthening transatlantic cooperation (a national goal set back in 2000), as well as to sensitize domestic policymakers and international stakeholders of possible exit strategies vis-a-vis the still prevalent anti-NATO climate in the Serbian society as a whole. Project activities actually correspond to the ongoing public debate on the pros and cons of Serbia's membership of NATO and as such include six policy papers (dissecting Serbia's progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration) circulated in the form of electronic bulletins and three panel discussions, each addressing the topics covered by policy papers.

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 85

EU CANDIDACY POSTPONED:
A TEST FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY

December 2011

EU summit conference of December 9 denied Serbia EU candidacy: Serbia had failed to demonstrate readiness to see to the problems discussed in Brussels within Belgrade-Pristina talks - barricades, unimpeded functioning of KFOR and EULEX in the entire territory of Kosovo and Kosovo's participation in regional forums. What EU actually wants Serbia to do is to put an end to the "borders issue" in the Balkans. Hits shot at KFOR troops were among key factors against Serbia's EU candidacy. The present government that four years ago won the elections with its pro-European option (the coalition "For a European Serbia") was caught in its own trap...   Acrobat PDF (337kb) >>>

Helsinki Bulletin, No. 76

RUSSIA:
A MYTHICAL ALLY

April 2011

Russian Premier Vladimir Putin's brief visit to Belgrade (March 23, 2011) brutally exposed the irrationality and disorientation of Serbia's foreign policy. Though the visit itself was unofficial, the manifestations of "worship" for Putin - in public and in the media - came as a surprise even to Russian reporters is his suite. Servility and humbleness showered on the practically "self-invited" guest, as some sources claimed, and meant to...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 75

THE OPEN 'SERB ISSUE' - A CONSTANT THREAT TO REGIONAL STABILITY

March 2011

The preconditions for the normalization of relations in the region still have not been attained. Bosnia and Herzegovina is blocked by an internal crisis, which is exacerbated by its surroundings. For Macedonia, the issue with Greece relating to Macedonian state identity (name) is still open, which has slowed down its European Union accession process and has dragged the country into a regressive process. The...
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'THE RATKO MLADIC CASE, SECURITY STRUCTURES AND THE EUROPEAN OPTION'

The first panel discussion within the project "Promoting Serbia's Transatlantic Integration" realized with the support from Balkan Trust for Democracy

Belgrade, February 21, 2011

The majority of participants in the panel discussion were representatives of the NGO sector in Serbia, media representatives and representatives of the Prosecution for War Crimes. Most indicative was the fact that governmental officials (from the Ministry of...
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Helsinki Bulletin, No. 74

THE 'HUNT' FOR MLADIC

January 2011

The 'Mladic case' is the paradigm of Serbia's social reality - of its attitude towards the past, towards reforms (of the security sector), towards justice and, finally, towards its neighbours. The alleged drama surrounding his arrest is a spectacle everyone is a part of. One of the key reasons for Serbia's delayed progress towards joining the EU lies in the fact that Ratko Mladia has not yet been arrested and extradited to The Hague. His arrest remains one of the main conditi...
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