On October 6, 2025, the Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG) convened a regional roundtable in Tirana, Albania. The discussion brought together senior politicians from the six Western Balkan countries to explore ways t ...
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BUILDING SPACE FOR DIALOGUE
On September 26–27, 2025, the Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG) convened a roundtable in Skopje, North Macedonia. The meeting brought together current and former members of parliament from governing and opposition p ...
POLITICAL CONSENSUS FOR EU REFORM IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
On July 4, 2025, the Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG) convened a regional roundtable in Skopje, North Macedonia. The event brought together senior politicians from the six Western Balkan countries to discuss how to ...
URGING UNITY FOR BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S EUROPEAN FUTURE
After the European Council meeting in late June 2025, it became clear that a “miracle” would not occur—Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) would not open pre-accession negotiations with the EU. Anticipating that a follow-up mee ...
FROM NEIGHBORS TO PARTNERS
On May 13-14, 2025, CIG convened a regional roundtable in Budva, Montenegro. The event brought together senior politicians from the six Western Balkan countries to discuss how to advance regional cooperation, how it can ...
NORMALIZATION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
The Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG) gathered a group of Serbian and Kosovo experts in Pancevo, Serbia, on May 17, 2025, to discuss the future of Kosovo-Serbia normalization. The meeting also addressed the shifting ...
DIALOGUE FROZEN, TRUST BROKEN
The Council for Inclusive Governance (CIG) convened a discussion on May 8, 2025, in Gracanica, Kosovo, bringing together civil society activists, analysts, and journalists from Albanian and Serb communities to discuss Ko ...
ADVANCING BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA ON ITS EU PATH
The Council for Inclusive Governance reconvened a group of senior officials from major political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on November 17, 2024, in Travnik to discuss the implementation of specific recommen ...
A SHARED PATH TO STABILITY AND EU MEMBERSHIP FOR THE WESTERN BALKANS
The Western Balkans remains high on EU’s agenda, but progress toward membership is slow. Internal ethnic divisions, bilateral political disputes, and insufficient EU support are key obstacles. A demographic crisis furthe ...
BILATERAL DISPUTES AND EU ENLARGEMENT IN THE WESTERN BALKANS
Since the beginning of the new phase of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, there has been a renewed enthusiasm on EU integration. The Western Balkans, which has been part of the enlargement agenda for over two decades, ...
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