February 2014 ~ İBG Blog

Dramatic History of Europe and the Emergence of the European Union

Brief History of the European Union

Monday, February 10, 2014

Start of EU Membership Negotiations With Serbia and The European Integration of Western Balkans

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, organizations such as the European Union (EU) and the NATO increase their activities in the Balkans, and the former Communist Bloc started to join these organizations as their members. In this process, Croatia became the latest member of the EU on 1 July 2013. On 21 January 2014, Serbia began negotiations for EU membership. Serbia towards the EU... Along with 5 other Western Balkans countries, Serbia...

İsa Burak Gonca graduated from the Department of International Relations of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the Eastern Mediterranean University of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Masters Program in Political Science and International Relations of the Institute of Social Sciences of Yeditepe University. He is now a PhD Candidate in the Field of the International Relations of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Suleyman Demirel University. He is currently doing his PhD studies on China's energy security and geoeconomic interests in Central Asia.