EU Views: Ermal Frasheri
Name: Ermal Frasheri
Nationality: Albania
Occupation(s): Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard University
Connection to Europe: A citizen of Albania, Ermal’s current research focuses on socio-economic development and regional integration processes in the Balkans.
Date of interview: October 21, 2016
In this episode, Sandra Porcar talks to Ermal Frasheri, Growth Lab Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Ermal describes what he believes are the two rifts defining present day Europe, namely, the Eurozone crisis and the emergence of gap between the richer north and poorer south and the migrant crisis which is forcing European nations to re-examine their core values. These rifts are exacerbated by tensions in the Balkans, Turkey and Ukraine. The rifts persist, Ermal suggests, because the problems facing Europe are transnational in nature, while remedies remain national, or reliant on national structures.