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Balkan Issues for NATO and EU: New Friends, Old Problems?

March 02, 2009
Albanian, EU, and U.S. flags in the town of Kacanik, Kosovo

The Program on International Security in cooperation with the Security and Defence Agenda in Brussels hosted a transatlantic discussion today (via videoteleconference) about the possibility and impact of Balkan issues spilling over into NATO and the EU.  Although it’s nearly a decade and a half since the Dayton Accords, and ten years since NATO intervened over Kosovo, dangerous tensions still persist.  The event addressed questions such as, "How great is the risk that old regional enmities and rivalries between Balkan newcomers to the EU and NATO will impact wider policy areas?"

Panel speakers (Brussels):

  • Giles Merritt (moderator), Security and Defence Agenda
  • Peter Weilemann (co-moderator), Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
  • Admiral Giampaola di Paola, Chairman of the Military Committee, NATO
  • Doris Pack MEP, Chairwoman of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South-East Europe
  • Jamie Shea, Director for Policy & Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General, NATO

Photo credit: Reuters Pictures.

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