Turkey's young Europeans

• ESI report: Cutting the Visa Knot – How Turks can travel freely to Europe (21 May 2013). NEW: Also available in Turkish: Vize Kördüğümünü Çözmek – Türkler Avrupa'ya Nasıl Serbestçe Seyahat Edebilir?
• Newsletter: Cutting the Visa Knot - How Turks can travel freely to Europe (21 May 2013)

• News: ESI in Washington D.C. at Congressional Hearing on Albania (6 May 2013)
• ESI discussion paper: Red Lines for Albania. The EU and the June Parliamentary Elections (7 May 2013)
• Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, "Albania: le elezioni cruciali per l'Europa". Also available in English: "Albania: crucial elections for Europe" (10 May 2013)
• More media reactions

• NEW ESI newsletter: Victor Hugo in Baku - Visa free travel and human rights (26 February 2013)
• NEW Rumeli Observer blog post: Les Miserables in Azerbaijan? (26 February 2013)
• NEW: Azerbaijan debacle: The PACE debate on 23 January 2013 (February 2013)
• NEW: Showdown in Strasbourg. The political prisoner debate in October 2012 (February 2013)
• ESI paper: A Portrait of Deception. Monitoring Azerbaijan or why Pedro Agramunt should resign (22 January 2013)
• Azerbaijani translation: Kürü Diplomatiyası. Azərbaycan Avropa Şurasını Necə Susdurdu
• ESI Facebook picture story: Ilham the Magician and the Council of Europe – Or: how (not) to make the problem of political prisoners disappear. A Fable in 35 Acts that can be read in 5 minutes!
• PACE Resolution 1900 (2012) "The definition of political prisoner" (3 October 2012) and other resolutions and reports  on Azerbaijan by the Council of Europe
• Christoph Straesser, "The definition of political prisoners" (Draft resolution adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 26 June 2012)
• ESI report: Caviar Diplomacy. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe (24 May 2012)
• ESI report: Generation Facebook in Baku – Adnan, Emin and the Future of Dissent in Azerbaijan (15 March 2011). Also available in Azerbaijani: Bakıdakı Facebook nəsli. Adnan, Emin və Azərbaycanda dissidentliyin gələcəyi (15 Mart 2011)

• NEW: Open letter to LIBE committee concerning Balkan asylum issues (21 February 2013)
• NEW: Statistical update: asylum seekers from the Western Balkans (15 February 2013)
• ESI report: Saving visa-free travel – Visa, Asylum and the EU roadmap policy (1 January 2013)
• EUobserver, Gerald Knaus and Alexandra Stiglmayer, "Populism in Brussels? How to solve the Balkan asylum crisis" (24 October 2012)
• Moving the goalposts? An analysis of the Kosovo visa roadmap (6 July 2012)
• News: Kosovo receives visa liberalisation roadmap (14 June 2012)
• Kosovo – the Balkan Ghetto
• Western Balkans – the opening
• Turkey – the European promise
• Visa-free travel and asylum
• The EU's Eastern Partners – the vision
• Europe's borders – global lessons?
• Understanding Europe's Borders (A-Z)

• Brussels – ESI at EPC policy dialogue: Visa Liberalisation and Turkey - What progress? (1 February 2013)
• Today's Zaman, Yonca Poyraz Doğan, "Knaus: Turkey, EU to develop more trust through plans for visa-free regime" (27 January 2013)
• News: Turkey takes major step towards visa liberalisation (21 June 2012)
• NEW: Discussion Paper: Nine reasons for a visa liberalisation process with Turkey (20 June 2012)
• The New York Times, Susanne Güsten, "Turks Seek Freedom to Travel to Europe Without Visas" (28 June 2012)
• NEW: Facts and figures related to visa-free travel for Turkey (15 June 2012)
• Turkish Policy Quarterly, Alexandra Stiglmayer, "Visa-free Travel for Turkey: In Everybody's Interest" - Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2012
• Op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung on visa free travel for Turkey: "Ein Fahrplan für die Reisefreiheit" (26 April 2012)
• News: ESI meeting President Gul and EU ambassadors in Ankara to discuss visa free travel for Turks (22 March 2012)
• Background paper: How Turkey can get on the Visa White List in Seven Steps (21 March 2012)
• Background paper: How to launch the Visa Liberalisation Process with Turkey (20 March 2012)
• Op-ed in EUobserver: "Being fair to Turkey is in the EU's interest" (12 March 2012)
• ESI newsletters: The time is now: changing EU visa policy on Turkey (13 March 2012), Towards visa liberalization – Seven steps to 228 votes (22 March 2012), Discussing strategies to get to visa free travel in Ankara (7 April 2012)

• ESI documentary: Twilight of Heroes – Croatia, Europe and the International Tribunal
• Public screenings and panel debates in Istanbul (13 December 2012), Belgrade (12 December), Berlin (23 November 2012, with Croatian foreign minister Vesna Pusic), London (14 November 2012), Pristina (13 November 2012), and Graz (10 November 2012)
• Rumeli Observer: Why Croatia's EU accession will strengthen the EU (19 October 2012). Also available in German: Warum Kroatiens Beitritt die EU stärken wird
• ESI news: Return to Europe: ESI filming Croatia documentary (30 May 2012)
• ESI newsletter: Croatia's European rebirth: a story of leadership (25 January 2012)
• ESI-portraits of people who changed Croatia: New Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, former President Stipe Mesic, former Prime Minister Ivica Racan
• ESI Croatia page
• The future of EU enlargement

• ESI documentary: Moldova – Lost in Transition
• Public screenings and panel debates in London (14 November 2012) and Berlin (22 November 2012)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EU
• International power and its limits
• Successful EU conditionality: visa free travel to the Schengen area
• How to change Bosnia's constitution?
• ESI film: Bosnia: A miracle which does not shine

• ESI news: Montenegro starts EU accession talks (29 June 2012)
• Montenegro and the EU
• ESI portrait: Gordana Djurovic (former Minister for European Integration)
• ESI Montenegro page
• The future of EU enlargement

• Leading experts on Turkey today (videos)
• Germany, Turks and Turkey
• Chronologies of Turkey debates in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands
• European debates on future EU enlargement and Turkey
• Picture story: A very special relationship. Why Turkey's EU Accession Process Will Continue (March 2011)

• Debates in EU member states
• Concepts & ideas
• Controversies
• Member state builders

• BOOK – Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus: Can intervention work? (2011)
• Media reactions: Financial Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Slate, and others
• Gerald Knaus: On intervention and statebuilding (video)
• Rory Stewart: From Afghanistan to Southern Iraq – observations on state building and intervention (video)
• Minna Jarvenpaa: Sarajevo, Mitrovica, Kabul – what have we learned? (video)
• Minna Jarvenpaa: Making Peace in Afghanistan - The Missing Political Strategy (video)
• ESI on the European Raj in Bosnia (2003) – ESI Picture Story on liberal imperialism (2003)

• Montenegro: Wild Beauty
• Kosovo: Cutting the lifeline
• Albania: Albanian Renaissance
• Macedonia: Macedonian Wedding
• Bosnia: A miracle which does not shine
• Serbia: Exit Europe
• Romania: timisoara.com
• Bulgaria: The long revolution
• Greece: Alexander's shadow
• Turkey: Istanbul – Truth, fear and hope
• Twilight of Heroes: Croatia, Europe and the International Tribunal
• Moldova: Lost in Transition

Complete films can be seen at standard.at/balkanexpress

• NEW: Azerbaijan debacle: The PACE debate on 23 January 2013 (February 2013)
• NEW: Showdown in Strasbourg. The political prisoner debate in October 2012 (February 2013)
• ESI paper: A Portrait of Deception. Monitoring Azerbaijan or why Pedro Agramunt should resign (22 January 2013)
• Azerbaijani translation: Kürü Diplomatiyası. Azərbaycan Avropa Şurasını Necə Susdurdu
• ESI Facebook picture story: Ilham the Magician and the Council of Europe – Or: how (not) to make the problem of political prisoners disappear. A Fable in 35 Acts that can be read in 5 minutes!
• PACE Resolution 1900 (2012) "The definition of political prisoner" (3 October 2012) and other resolutions and reports  on Azerbaijan by the Council of Europe
• Christoph Straesser, "The definition of political prisoners" (Draft resolution adopted by the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 26 June 2012)
• ESI report: Caviar Diplomacy. How Azerbaijan silenced the Council of Europe (24 May 2012)
• ESI report: Generation Facebook in Baku – Adnan, Emin and the Future of Dissent in Azerbaijan (15 March 2011). Also available in Azerbaijani: Bakıdakı Facebook nəsli. Adnan, Emin və Azərbaycanda dissidentliyin gələcəyi (15 Mart 2011)

• Brussels – ESI at EPC policy dialogue: Visa Liberalisation and Turkey - What progress? (1 February 2013)
• Today's Zaman, Yonca Poyraz Doğan, "Knaus: Turkey, EU to develop more trust through plans for visa-free regime" (27 January 2013)
• News: Turkey takes major step towards visa liberalisation (21 June 2012)
• NEW: Discussion Paper: Nine reasons for a visa liberalisation process with Turkey (20 June 2012)
• The New York Times, Susanne Güsten, "Turks Seek Freedom to Travel to Europe Without Visas" (28 June 2012)
• NEW: Facts and figures related to visa-free travel for Turkey (15 June 2012)
• Turkish Policy Quarterly, Alexandra Stiglmayer, "Visa-free Travel for Turkey: In Everybody's Interest" - Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2012
• Op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung on visa free travel for Turkey: "Ein Fahrplan für die Reisefreiheit" (26 April 2012)
• News: ESI meeting President Gul and EU ambassadors in Ankara to discuss visa free travel for Turks (22 March 2012)
• Background paper: How Turkey can get on the Visa White List in Seven Steps (21 March 2012)
• Background paper: How to launch the Visa Liberalisation Process with Turkey (20 March 2012)
• Op-ed in EUobserver: "Being fair to Turkey is in the EU's interest" (12 March 2012)
• ESI newsletters: The time is now: changing EU visa policy on Turkey (13 March 2012), Towards visa liberalization – Seven steps to 228 votes (22 March 2012), Discussing strategies to get to visa free travel in Ankara (7 April 2012)

• NEW ESI report: Saving visa-free travel – Visa, Asylum and the EU roadmap policy (1 January 2013)
• EUobserver, Gerald Knaus and Alexandra Stiglmayer, "Populism in Brussels? How to solve the Balkan asylum crisis" (24 October 2012)
• Moving the goalposts? An analysis of the Kosovo visa roadmap (6 July 2012)
• News: Kosovo receives visa liberalisation roadmap (14 June 2012)
• Kosovo – the Balkan Ghetto
• Western Balkans – the opening
• Turkey – the European promise
• Visa-free travel and asylum
• The EU's Eastern Partners – the vision
• Europe's borders – global lessons?
• Understanding Europe's Borders (A-Z)

• NEW: Watch the full film online
• New ESI documentary: Twilight of Heroes – Croatia, Europe and the International Tribunal
• Public screenings and panel debates in Istanbul (13 December 2012), Belgrade (12 December), Berlin (23 November 2012, with Croatian foreign minister Vesna Pusic), London (14 November 2012), Pristina (13 November 2012), and Graz (10 November 2012)
• Rumeli Observer: Why Croatia's EU accession will strengthen the EU (19 October 2012). Also available in German: Warum Kroatiens Beitritt die EU stärken wird
• ESI news: Return to Europe: ESI filming Croatia documentary (30 May 2012)
• ESI newsletter: Croatia's European rebirth: a story of leadership (25 January 2012)
• ESI-portraits of people who changed Croatia: New Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic, former President Stipe Mesic, former Prime Minister Ivica Racan
• ESI Croatia page
• The future of EU enlargement

• NEW: Watch the full film online
• New ESI documentary: Moldova – Lost in Transition
• Public screenings and panel debates in London (14 November 2012) and Berlin (22 November 2012)

• Bosnia and Herzegovina and the EU
• International power and its limits
• Successful EU conditionality: visa free travel to the Schengen area
• How to change Bosnia's constitution?
• ESI film: Bosnia: A miracle which does not shine

• ESI news: Montenegro starts EU accession talks (29 June 2012)
• Montenegro and the EU
• ESI portrait: Gordana Djurovic (former Minister for European Integration)
• ESI Montenegro page
• The future of EU enlargement

• Leading experts on Turkey today (videos)
• Germany, Turks and Turkey
• Chronologies of Turkey debates in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands
• European debates on future EU enlargement and Turkey
• Picture story: A very special relationship. Why Turkey's EU Accession Process Will Continue (March 2011)

• Debates in EU member states
• Concepts & ideas
• Controversies
• Member state builders

• BOOK – Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus: Can intervention work? (2011)
• Media reactions: Financial Times, The New Republic, The Washington Post, Slate, and others
• Gerald Knaus: On intervention and statebuilding (video)
• Rory Stewart: From Afghanistan to Southern Iraq – observations on state building and intervention (video)
• Minna Jarvenpaa: Sarajevo, Mitrovica, Kabul – what have we learned? (video)
• Minna Jarvenpaa: Making Peace in Afghanistan - The Missing Political Strategy (video)
• ESI on the European Raj in Bosnia (2003) – ESI Picture Story on liberal imperialism (2003)

• Montenegro: Wild Beauty
• Kosovo: Cutting the lifeline
• Albania: Albanian Renaissance
• Macedonia: Macedonian Wedding
• Bosnia: A miracle which does not shine
• Serbia: Exit Europe
• Romania: timisoara.com
• Bulgaria: The long revolution
• Greece: Alexander's shadow
• Turkey: Istanbul – Truth, fear and hope

Complete films can be seen at standard.at/balkanexpress