Brussels – ESI at discussion on how to boost the renewed momentum for EU enlargement

Adnan Cerimagic speaks at an event in Brussels. Photo: ESI

ESI analyst Adnan Cerimagic participated in a panel discussion on "The European Union and the Western Balkans: How to boost the renewed momentum for enlargement?", an event organised by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the EU, Austro-French Centre for Rapprochement in Europe (ÖFZ-CFA), Centre international de formation européenne (CIFE) and the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP). The event took place on 22 November 2018 in Brussels.

Adnan presented ESI's latest reports and ideas on the future of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans. Other speakers included Klaus Wölfer, Director for EU Enlargement and South-East Europe at the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Mateo Bonomi, researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali from Rome, Simonida Kacarska, director of the European Policy Institute in Skopje, Stefan Lehne, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Europe in Brussels and Sabina Lange, senior lecturer at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht. The event was attended by EU and the Western Balkans diplomats, as well as members of the European Parliament and officials of the European Commission and the Council.

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• ESI, “Don’t believe the Hype – Why Bosnian democracy will not end this October”, 30 January 2018.
• European Western Balkans, "[EWB Interview] Ćerimagić: Questionnaire the first thing EU did right in BiH in 10 years" (20 December 2017)
• ESI, “Wine, dog food and Bosnian clichés – False ideas and why they matter”, 5 November 2017.
• European Western Balkans, "[EWB Interview] Ćerimagić: We need EU accession to be beneficial for WB states today", 23 October 2017.
• ESI, “The Chapter Illusion – For Honesty and Clearity in EU-Turkey relations”, 15 May 2017.
• Blijesak (Bosnian news portal), “Konferencija o EU integracijama u Mostaru: I dalje imamo perspektivu” (“Conference on EU integration process in Mostar: We continue to have membership perspective”), 29 March 2017.
• European Western Balkans, “Adnan Ćerimagić: The Idea that Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Special Case Needs to be Changed”, 12 December 2016.
• BiEPB, “The untold story behind Bosnia’s EU membership application”, 17 March 2016.
• Vijesti.ba (Bosnian news portal), “EU must accept its role both in the good and the bad processes that are happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, 12 December 2015.
• ESI,  “Rankings that fail – Doing Business, Bosnia and Macedonia in 2015”, 9 November 2015.
• ESI, “A reporting revolution? Towards a new generation of progress reports”, 9 November 2015.
• Nezavisne novine (Bosnian daily), "Adnan Cerimagic (ESI): Dayton je svima i krivac i izgovor" ("Adnan Cerimagic (ESI): Everyone blames Dayton and use it as excuse"), 15 September 2015.
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• ESI, “Bosnia as Wunderkind of Doing Business. Outline of 14 steps to take – A Proposal to the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, 19 March 2015.
• ESI, “Protests and Illusions – How Bosnia and Herzegovina lost a decade”, 23 December 2014.
• Rumeli Observer, “Bosnians care – But will protests change things?”, 23 December 2014.
• ESI, “Not for lack of trying. Chronology of efforts to solve Sejdic-Finci conundrum”, October 2013.
• ESI, “Houdini in Bosnia. How to unlock the EU accession process”, 17 October 2013.
• ESI, “Lost in the Bosnian labyrinth. Why the Sejdic-Finci case should not block an EU application”, 7 October 2013.