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ESI activities in 2018

Belgrade – ESI at anniversary conference of the European Fund for the Balkans (16 April 2018)
Interview in Süddeutsche Zeitung on European refugee policy (3 April 2018)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung article on ESI senior fellow John Dalhuisen: "If you don't compromise you lose" (26 March 2018)
Bremen – ESI keynote lecture on the future of European asylum and migration policy (20 March 2018)
Belgrade – ESI at regional conference on the latest strategy of the European Commission for the Western Balkans (13 March 2018)
Dublin and Belfast – ESI lecture on the EU-Turkey Deal two years on and meetings post-conflict reconciliation (8 March 2018)
Vienna – ESI moderates a workshop on EU enlargement in the Western Balkans (7 March 2018)
Berlin – ESI at think tank meeting on Turkey (7 March 2018)
Rome – ESI at FEPS Global Migration Group meeting: "The dilemmas of the destination countries" (1 March 2018)
Skopje and Tirana – ESI takes part in a brainstorming on the EU strategy for the Western Balkans (28 February 2018)
The Hague and Ter Apel – ESI meetings with the Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service and public debates on the EU-Turkey deal (20 February 2018)
Munich – ESI at public debate on "Fences for Africa?" (27 January 2018)
Belgrade – ESI at panel on the upcoming EU strategy for the Western Balkans (25 January 2018)
Athens – ESI presentations on how to rescue EU asylum policy in the Mediterranean (25 January 2018)
Brussels – ESI at COWEB meeting on the Western Balkans at the Council of the EU (22 January 2018)
Rome – Lecture at Nato Defense College on the Western Balkans and meetings on EU asylum and migration policy (10 January 2018)

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Alan Grant is an Irish photographer who travelled extensively in the Balkans and other countries and regions of the world. Thanks to him, ESI is able to show fascinating pictures of the Balkans: the facades of Tirana, the painted mosques of Travnik, the fabulous old houses of Plovdiv and the spectacular blue of water - dark in the Bay of Kotor, emerald in the river valleys of Bosnia, deep blue in Ohrid, twinkling in the Aegean Sea and on the Bosporus.

You can find out more about Alan Grant on his websites:

Jonathan Lewis lives between London and Istanbul. He moved to London and spent many years studying photography and now specialises in photojournalism, documentary photography and commercial work for a wide variety of private and commercial clients in the UK, Europe and Turkey. His work has appeared in a number of magazines and publications and is used on the ESI website as well.

You can find out more about Jonathan Lewis on his website www.jonathanlewisphoto.com