{"id":53323,"date":"2022-06-28T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=53323"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T20:05:10","slug":"garcevic-delivers-lecture-on-eu-opportunities-for-non-member-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2022\/06\/28\/garcevic-delivers-lecture-on-eu-opportunities-for-non-member-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Gar\u010devi\u0107 Delivers Lecture on EU Opportunities for Non-Member States"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On June 27, 2022, Ambassador <\/span>Vesko Gar\u010devi\u0107<\/a>, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, delivered a lecture as part of the Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies at Emmanuel College, a summer academic program in Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gar\u010devi\u0107’s lecture, titled “The Balkans between the EU and Russia,” focused on the current state of play in the region, following the European Union Council’s decision to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova as well as French President Macron\u2019s idea to create a Political European Community<\/em> for non-EU European states. Since the EU Council decision is the result of the geopolitical development in Eastern Europe rather than a merit-based decision, he posed the question of what it meant for the EU aspiring states from the Balkans.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Gar\u010devi\u0107’s opinion, by missing an opportunity to grant the candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina, open accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, or grant a visa-free regime for Kosovo, Brussels puts at risk the legitimacy of enlargement in this part of Europe. President Macron\u2019s idea is vague and is not promising full inclusion in the EU.<\/span><\/p>\n

This ambiguity keeps the door for Russia\u2019s influence wide-open, with Serbia\u2019s case as an example. Given the topic of the Eastern Mediterranean Security Studies program this year \u2013 <\/span>Energy and cooperation in Eastern Mediterranean \u2013\u00a0<\/em>participants also discussed how Moscow uses energy to advance its interests in countries from the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

During his diplomatic career, Ambassador\u00a0<\/span>Vesko\u00a0Gar\u010devi\u0107<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He had been Montenegro\u2019s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as Montenegro\u2019s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School. Learn more about Ambassador Gar\u010devi\u0107 on his\u00a0<\/span>faculty profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By missing an opportunity to grant the candidate status to Bosnia and Herzegovina, open accession talks with Albania and North Macedonia, or grant a visa-free regime for Kosovo, Brussels puts at risk the legitimacy of enlargement in the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":32918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[11835,9884,11005,11328,8361,8710,10344,9656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53410,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53323\/revisions\/53410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}