Politica de extindere a Uniunii Europene în Balcanii de Vest

European Union Enlargement Policy in the West Balkans

Abstract

The period of peace and stability that Europe has gone through is largely due to an unprecedented political and legal construction: the European Union. Witnessing the violence that has ravaged the countries of Europe twice in just half a century, the elites of that time have seen in regional integration the right solution to remove the causes of military conflagrations. Of course, the idea of politically uniting Europe was not new, but as old as the “old continent”. This time, however, the polarization of the post-war world between capitalism and communism convinced the European West to embrace the desire for economic interdependence. Today, three decades after the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the first withdrawal of a Member State (UK), enlargement to the Western Balkans appears to be a top priority for European construction. The European integration of the countries of the Western Balkans is, without a doubt, a strategic investment in a stable, strong, united Union.