Analysis: Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union: Enlargement as a strategic decision

Our senior researcher Jana Juzová has written an analysis in which she describes the fact that EU enlargement policy and the EU's south-eastern and eastern neighborhood represent some of the most important areas of Czech foreign and European policy in the last two decades.

With the world’s attention focused on the EU’s Eastern border, there was widespread fear in the Western Balkans both about the instability initiated by pro-Russian forces spilling over to the region and about Western Balkans being put aside by the EU. 

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Jana Faktor Juzová
Senior Research Fellow

Expertise: regionalism, Visegrad cooperation, democratization and European integration of the Western Balkan countries, EU enlargement