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The Western Balkans include Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania. This area continues to be marked by the consequences of the wars of the 1990s.

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The Governance of Energy Poverty in Southeastern Europe

Date de publication
30 March 2011
Accroche

This report presents the outcomes of a recently-completed research project1 aimed at uncovering the different ways in which energy poverty – understood as a condition wherein the domestic energy services available to a household are below socially and materially necessitated levels – is produced by, and mitigated through, the interaction of relevant decision-making institutions in the energy, social welfare, health and housing domains. The project focused on conditions in Southeastern Europe, where energy prices have been recently on the rise despite falling incomes and poor access to efficient and adequate energy services. 

Serbia moving ahead towards trade liberalization with EU?

Date de publication
02 March 2010
Accroche

An Interim Agreement on Trade and Trade related aspects (ITA), signed between the European Community and Serbia in April 2008, entered into force on February 1, 2010. This ITA, as a part of the Stabilization and Association Agreement, “establishes a bilateral free trade area over a period lasting a maximum of six years starting from the entry into force of this Agreement in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and in conformity with those of the GATT 1994 and the WTO”.

The Use of Force in the Kosovo Affair and International Law

Date de publication
15 May 2001
Accroche

An analysis of the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo in the eyes of international law and the UN Charter.

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