Balkans

After two years of status quo, Serbia has finally opened a new cluster in its EU accession negotiations. This is a solid and encouraging political signal for the authorities and the citizens. But is this progress justified? The fall of Slobodan Milošević’s regime in 2000 allowed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY, which became Serbia in 2006) to end an authoritarian and populist regime, which had trapped it in a decade of international sanctions and deep economic recession. The Serbian people ...