Kosovo Debate on European Issues - A compilation of eight Policy Papers in the area of education, rule of law and economy

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Created on Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:32

Research repeatedly confirms that investment in education is an important source of sustainable economic growth of a country. A quality education increases the opportunities of new generations for better employment and thus a higher living standard. In Kosovo, with the smallest economic growth in the region of 3.9 % and the highest unemployment rate of 43.6 % on the one hand, and on the other with the highest birth rate of 1.6 % and more than 33 % of the population under 15, the investment in the quality of education has to be taken seriously and user as a tool to change the current situation. 

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Eastern Partnership in Context of European Neighbourhood Policy and V4 Agenda

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Created on Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:30

The publication The Eastern Partnership in the context of the European Neighbourhood Policy and V4 Agenda initiated by The Kosciuszko Institute and prepared jointly with the consortium of European think tanks – the Europeum Institute for European Policy and Centre for EU Enlargement Studies with invited experts, aims to present a project of the European Union – the Eastern Partnership (EaP) as an initiative actively supported by the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. This project has been co-funded by The International Visegrad Fund.

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Not Your Grandfathers‘ Eastern Bloc

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Created on Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:27

The publication is a product of the Open Society Institute – Sofia within the European Policies Initiative (EuPI, www.eupi.eu) and the project The EU New Member States as Agenda Setters in the Enlarged European Union. This EuPI project has been implemented in close partnership with EUROPEUM Institute for European Policy, with funding provided by the Open Society Institute – Sofia.
The report is based mainly on in-depth country reports from the ten New Member States. You will find the comparative study here. To access the individual country reports for the 10 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, please follow this link.

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Bulgaria, Romania...and who next?

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Created on Thursday, 11 November 2010 20:18

The rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty in France and the Netherlands in 2005 has cast doubts about the future direction of the European Union, including the future of one of its most successful tools – enlargement. The link between widening and enlarging the European Union comes to the fore again and the argument that further EU expansion should be slowed down or halted altogether without institutional reform gains salience across the EU. Still, the enlargement process has technically not stopped, but surely is going through diffi cult times. Although Turkey started accession negotiations in October 2005, the talks almost collapsed in 2006 due to the failure to settle the extension of the customs union to Cyprus. Despite the existing commitments of the EU to integrate the countries of Western Balkans, only Croatia is currently negotiating its accession and only Macedonia enjoys the candidate status whereas there is very little progress in sight regarding the rest of the region. 

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