Posts Tagged Kosovo
Serbia’s long and winding road to EU accession
Posted by Natalie Hamill in European Union on 01/12/2011
By Lucy Hatton
Next week’s EU Summit provides the perfect opportunity to review Serbia’s progress towards EU membership – a contentious issue since Serbia applied in 2009. Earlier this year it was suggested that Serbia might be granted official candidate status at the EU Summit on Friday (9th December), yet this is looking increasingly unlikely, due to Serbia’s unresolved issues with Kosovo.
A Little Less Conversation…
Posted by Carolina Bracken in Civil Liberty, European Union, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights on 28/01/2011
Human Rights Watch World Report 2011 has slammed the EU for its overreliance on dialogue rather than action in tackling human rights abuse, and for its “obsequious” approach to known rights violators. Whilst there is no inherent harm in cooperative dialogue, the EU seems “particularly infatuated” with this discursive model.
