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  • 04 May
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The Geopolitical Gambles in the Balkans

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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the Balkan countries, not only on the region's already fragile socio-economic systems but also on their precarious geopolitical balance framed between Europe and the East. Although the EU remains the main partner and aid supplier of the Western Balkans during the pandemic, the last two years have proven integration in the region to lose momentum, leaving the field open to other superpowers such as China and Russia, as the so-called vaccine diplomacy has showed. Similarly, after a long geopolitical silence, the US has returned to the Balkans in an attempt to mediate a solution for Belgrade and Pristina, joining the ten-year long dialogue led by the EU. What interests are at stake in the region? Who is gambling in the Balkans?
 
The event was organized on the occasion of the publication of the ISPI Report “The Pandemic in the Balkans: Geopolitics and Democracy at Stake”, available online on the ISPI website.
 
ISPI has always been careful to ensure an inclusive working environment and to be attentive to gender diversity and to the plurality of voices represented in its initiatives. When this is not reflected in one of our publications or events, it is due to the unavailability of the consulted experts to participate or to challenges in identifying specific profiles in our network.

 

 

 

Tuesday, 4 May, 2021 - 15:00
Online conference

SPEAKERS

Paolo Magri
Executive Vice President, ISPI
Carl Bildt
former UN Special Envoy to the Balkans; ECFR Co-chair; Special Envoy for the ACT-Accelerator, WHO
Miroslav Lajčák
EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue
Tim Judah
Balkans Correspondent, The Economist
Dimitar Bechev
Director, European Policy Institute, Bulgaria
Gentiola Madhi
Associated Researcher, European Movement Albania and Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso – Transeuropa, Albania
Jovana Marovic
Executive Director, Politikon Network, Montenegro
Tena Prelec
Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK
Richard Q. Turcsanyi
Program Director, Central European Institute of Asian Studies, Slovakia
Giorgio Fruscione
Research Fellow, ISPI

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