EU integration and party politics in the Balkans
Bandovic, Igor ; Barbullushi, Odeta ; Kacarska, Simonida ; Konitzer, Andrew ; Marovic, Jovana ; Sosic, Marko ; Stratulat, Corina ; Vujacic, Marko ; Weber, Bodo
European Policy Centre, Brussels
EPC - Brussels
2014
116 p.
democracy ; European integration ; political party ; political aspect
EPC Issue Paper
77
European Union
English
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"This study highlights the interplay between EU integration and national politics in the region, and that both are consequential for the quality of Balkan democracies, as well as reminiscent of the Western and Central and Eastern European experience. Distrust in representative institutions and disengagement from political life runs dramatically high among the people of the Balkan countries, and this generalised sense of dissatisfaction is starting to breed cynicism also towards the idea of a better future inside the Union."
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