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- Title
Lobbying for a faster integration track for the western Balkans region.
- Authors
Djurovič, Gordana; Radovič, Milivoje
- Abstract
The European Union's actions in the western Balkans region is guided by the principles which have inspired its own creation, development and enlargement. Nevertheless, the countries of the region area are still impatiently waiting for a confirmation of the Thessaloniki Agenda conclusions in the new Enlargement Strategy for 2010/2011, which will have a strong impact on the region's further integration dynamic. There is a unique stance among all the countries of the region that it is necessary to lobby for a faster Integration track, requiring all potential candidate countries promptly to understand the manners and rules of functioning of the complex EU system. In that sense, western Balkan countries have, to different extents, developed lobbying networks. Each country needs to create the institutional set up for lobbying, registers of professional lobbyists and codes of conduct for lobbyists, with a full understanding of the relevant machinery of decision-making, which will help them to influence the process concerning the enlargement dynamic.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN Union countries; EUROPEAN Union -- Social aspects; LOBBYING; TREATY accession
- Publication
South East Europe Review (SEER): Journal for Labour & Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, 2016, p183
- ISSN
1435-2869
- Publication type
Article