The European Stability Initiative (ESI) is a European think tank developing policy ideas on South East Europe, asylum policy, human rights and democracy.
Our new
@ESI_eu
background paper is out!
“Invented
#pogroms
-
#Statistics
, lies & confusion in
#Kosovo
“
On a matter of great importance:
How many
#Serbs
live in 🇽🇰?
How many left in recent years?
And how to explain these trends?
Now online 👇🏼
Dear friends, our new newsletter is out!
It is striking how differently
#Russia
and
#Kosovo
have been treated by the governments of
@coe
member states in recent years.
On this & what next for 🇽🇰 membership in
@coe
see👇🏼
“47 again? 🇷🇺
#out
, 🇽🇰
#in
”
Our deputy chairman
@kristofbender
on
@coe
membership for 🇽🇰:
“The main mission of the Council of Europe is to monitor and protect Europe's democracies.
#Kosovo
is a European democracy, so why would anyone want to exclude it?”
In Albanian 👇
Our new
@ESI_eu
background brief is out!
On hysteria, 🇧🇦 &
@OHR_BiH
& why one of country's entities not having a government yet does not require another autocratic intervention.
On how NOT to get drawn into endless, pointless & harmful interventions.
Dear friends of
@ESI_eu
,
Two weeks ago today, a historic debate on 🇦🇿 took place in the
@coe
.
We put together a compilation on this remarkable episode in the history of Europe’s leading
#human
#rights
institution.
Given the history of relations between the
@coe
and 🇦🇿, this
Dear friends,
Today, 🇷🇸 & 🇽🇰 stand at the brink of a catastrophe. It is urgent for European powers to act in time and in a way that can pre-empt it.
Our new
#ESI
newsletter is out!
Our newsletter on four steps towards an
#EU
-
#Balkan
breakthrough in 2021 is out.
The EU should offer to any interested Western Balkan nation the chance to join its
#Single
#Market
as an interim goal in a reformed two-stage EU accession process.
Warm congratulations to
@Dunja_Mijatovic
from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who has just been elected by the Assembly as the
@CoE
's new Commissioner for Human Rights! She will serve a six-year term, beginning in April.
NEW ESI newsletter - on the hypnotist & on the significant decision EU has to make on
#northmacedonia
now. Here in 6 facts what you need to know.
#Serbia
#Kosovo
👇 REMINDER! "Kosovo’s visa liberalization: Can we hope for progress soon?"
📆 Join us live TOMORROW (20.09.2022) at 6:00 PM (CEST)!
📍 IIP Premises / Facebook & YouTube Live
REGISTER HERE:
On the opening morning of the first day of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's (
@pace_coe
) first part session of 2024,
@FrankSchwabe
, a German Social Democrat, stood up to present a motion to "challenge the still unratified credentials of the delegation of 🇦🇿 on
There are competitive and fair elections, like the parliamentary elections that took place in the 🇳🇱 in November 2023, where some 10.5 million went to the poll.
There are competitive and unfair elections, like the parliamentary and local elections that took place in 🇷🇸 in
Our new
#ESI
newsletter is out!
“Historic vote –
#Kosovo
’s breakthrough – a
#Unicorn
”
🇪🇺🇽🇰🦄
We describe what has been a masterpiece of political hypnosis. Hoping that NO government in the
@coe
falls for it. To block 🇽🇰 over a failed hunt for a political unicorn would be a
Our NEW
@ESI_eu
background paper is out!
The true state of 🇪🇺
#accession
- based wholly on
@EU_Commission
reports.
Without being well prepared, barriers between the
#EU
#Single
#Market
& candidate countries cannot be fully lifted.
Full paper 👇
Our new
@ESI_eu
background paper is out!
Guide to a Crime Scene -
#Azerbaijan
and the Council of Europe: State repression and those who fight it
Available here 👇🏼
The 🇪🇺accession process is still stuck. What are the risks for Europe? Could a functioning process contribute to peace? How can it be revived again?
Listen in to
@ESI_eu
's
@kristofbender
discussing these issues with
@mihajl_milena
and
@S_Fenkart
on
@iipvienna
's podcast.
🎧🇪🇺! Tune in for our next podcast episode dedicated to the upcoming EU-elections! With
@kristofbender
and
@mihajl_milena
we discussed EU-enlargement.
🎧 Listen here:
Our new
@ESI_eu
newsletter is out!
“Breaking a deadlock – the genius of
#Ahtisaari
– a peace formula”
As
@coe
foreign ministers meet to discuss the future of the Council of Europe today: what is at stake?
The Ahtisaari formula for peace.
🇽🇰🇪🇺
Our new
@ESI_eu
background paper is out!
The next war in the
#Caucasus
: Taking Ilham
#Aliyev
seriously
In the wake of 🇦🇿’s military victory in 2023, a question inevitably arises: is this the end of the fighting?👇🏼
Don't miss our upcoming joint webinar with
@TOBBiletisim
on the
#NewPact
on
#migration
and
#asylum
and its implications for cooperation with
#Turkey
.
🗓️ Monday 9 November
🕜 13:30-15:00 CET / 15:30-17:00 Turkey
Register 🔜
🗣️ Turkish interpretation
Dear friends, our new
#ESI
newsletter is out!
On how in this historic moment,
#EU
could start accession talks with 🇺🇦 in 2022.
“
#Ukraine
,
#Europe
and a second Treaty of
#Rome
”
Our new
#ESI
background paper is out!
“Memo on
#De
čani: The rule of law, an urgent issue and
#Kosovo
in the Council of Europe“
In order to understand what is at stake, & what progress is possible, we look at 4️⃣ issues:
1️⃣ the dispute;
2️⃣ history & politics;
3️⃣ the solution;
🇽🇰🇷🇸🇧🇦
New
@ESI_eu
- online later tonight
„Invented pogroms - Statistics, lies and confusion in Kosovo“
On a matter of great importance: how many Kosovo Serbs live in Kosovo?
How many left in recent years?
And how to explain these trends?
@adicerimagic
@kristofbender
🦄
What IS a “Community of Serb-majority municipalities” in Kosovo?
Is it even a thing?
Or, like a unicorn, something that does not exist anywhere in the real world?
An “Association of Serb-majority municipalities” IS a thing.
But who can create it?
101 on a masterclass
Austria's shift to the right sends exactly the wrong message to Austria's post-communist neighbours in Central Europe, such as Hungary and Poland, where illiberal regimes already hold power and bid to reshape the EU.
@cnni
Mechanizm praworządności UE nie zadziała. UE ma już sprawdzone traktatowe narzędzia: postępowanie naruszeniowe i orzeczenia TSUE. Muszą być używane z rozwagą i bez opóźnień. Nasza analityk
#Magdalena
#Milenkowska
o zaproponowanym przez
@ESI_eu
„mechanizmie z art. 19”.
Today on
@refugeesdeeply
: a response to our recent proposal on how
#Italy
can combine migration control with human rights. This is the debate we need to have on the way forward towards an effective and humane
#EU
#asylum
and
#migration
policy.
@laganagan
“This is not about economics,” said Gerald Knaus, the director of the European Stability Initiative, a Berlin-based think tank. “It is about identity and a very successful populist P.R. machine that is rewriting recent history.”
8/10 European countries with fastest rising infection rates are Balkan ones. Not as stated – Balkan governments said the coronavirus was under control with insights from
@brikenehoxha
and
@adicerimagic
and Dr Gorica Djokic.
Panel with ESI analyst Erkut Emcioglu today, 18 March, 18.00 (Turkish time) on the 5th anniversary of the EU-Turkey Statement - organised by
@GAR_Dernek
(Association for Migration Research) and
@TURABDER
(Turkey-European Union Association). Register at
Our August newsletter is out! Is there any important issue of European politics on which Matteo
#Salvini
and Viktor
#Orban
do not agree? And if nothing comes to mind: what does this tell us about the future of coalition politics in 2019 and beyond?
"Addressing
#Serbia
’s president, Aleksandar Vučic, and
#Kosovo
’s president, Hashim Thaçi, I warned against trying to deal with minority groups by scheming to make minorities disappear, with borders redrawn along ethnic lines."
@adicerimagic
🇷🇸President Vucic claims:
*) 14% of
#Kosovo
#Serbs
left in the past year
*) there are
#pogroms
and ethnic cleansing against Kosovo Serbs.
These claims are
#false
.
These claims are dangerous.
🇪🇺& member state officials should challenge them.
A short 🧵
The refugee crisis exposed the limits of solidarity and cooperation in Europe. We talked to
@erstefoundation
about the need for a humane, implementable policy on asylum and borders that can also help win elections.
#MigrantsDay
ESI analyst
@adicerimagic
on the EU
#questionnaire
: "For the first time in a decade, the EU did something right in Bosnia. For far too long the EU has treated Bosnians as a special case."
@European_WB
NEW ESI newsletter: The
#EU
should offer all six
#WesternBalkans
nations the possibility to join the single market, like
#Norway
and
#Iceland
. It should radically reform the methodology of assessing progress.
❤️ Just keep walking!!
Wishing all friends, all I met 2020, and everyone who likes to discuss things from different perspectives, in order to find ways forward, the very best for 2021.
We are alive. We have our wits. We can love. And we can change things.
Let’s.
Recent interview with ESI analyst
@adicerimagic
on the EU Strategy for the
#WesternBalkans
. Clarity of vision should now pave the way towards serious implementation and support from the
@EU_Commission
and Member States to genuine reformers.
#WB6
#EU
should help citizens of
#BiH
&
#WB6
to expose their fake reformers & discover/support genuine reformers. Many good ideas in yesterday’s
#EU
#WesternBalkans
Strategy - if implemented - could help do exactly that! Me
@klixba
on this & more.
@ESI_eu
András Göllner: Europe crosses the Rubicon in
#Hungary
- "When Gerald Knaus, chairman of the prestigious European Stability Initiative think tank stated recently, that
#Orb
án is the most dangerous man in Europe today, he was not far off the mark."
ESI's
@kristofbender
takes stock of last
#EuropeanCouncil
in
@falter_at
and lines out how to establish an EU vision for the (rightly disappointed)
#WesternBalkans
, for 🇺🇦&🇲🇩that is credible but also addresses concerns of sceptics like 🇫🇷🇳🇱🇩🇪? (in German)
Now in English: "If you don’t compromise you lose" - For ten years,
@DalhuisenJJ
was an important figure at
@amnesty
. Then he left. Today he believes that human rights activists often do more harm than good to their cause.