A Troubled or a Troubling Candidate – Serbian Accession to the EU

• Authors: Vladimir Ðorðević
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article analyzes Serbian accession bid to the EU. Although a candidate country as of March 2012, Serbia will have to manage some painstaking reforms before being admitted into the Union. Even if negotiations over Serbian entry start next year, and date of entry negotiations is still unknown, it seems realistic that Serbia will not join the EU by the end of this decade. In that respect, main argument of this article is that Serbian entry to the EU is dependent on the following issues: battling systemic corruption and (organized) crime; relations with Kosovo; and change of political culture.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Strategiczny
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 83-94

Dates

published

2012-12-15

Contributors

author

Vladimir Ðorðević

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ps.2012.2.7