European Western Balkans (sometimes abbreviated EWB) is web portal that focuses on the Western Balkans countries and reports on development of the European Union's enlargement policy towards these states – Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. Croatia, which is the only Western Balkans state member of the EU, is also included in this project, as a good role-model for other states. The project is a joint collaboration of young academics with European experience who are from Western Balkan countries.
The objective of European Western Balkans is to enhance understanding, raise awareness and further dialogue surrounding issues facing the democratization of Balkan nations and the desire for its integration in the European Union. European Western Balkans website takes a more journalistic than scholarly approach with interviews and analysis from journalists, experts, analysts, writers, historians, as well as leaders and political figures from the European Union and Western Balkan states.
European Western Balkans is entirely independent and it is owned and run Centre for Contemporary Politics (Центар савремене политике) based in Belgrade
European Western Balkans has a series of interviews with key people from Western Balkans countries which are involved in European integration process of their countries and interviews with politicians and specialists in a wide range of fields especially in European Politics and European integration. Notable interviews include:
Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Integration
Aleksandar Andrija Pejović, Chief Negotiator for negotiations over Montenegro’s accession to the European Union
Jadranka Joksimović, Serbian Minister without portfolio
Peter Sørensen, Danish diplomat, European Union Special Representative to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Samuel Žbogar, Slovenian diplomat, European Union Special Representative to Kosovo
Biljana Borzan, Croatian Member of the European Parliament
Klajda Gjosha, Albanian Minister of European Integration
Mitja Drobnič, Slovenian diplomat, Head of Delegation of the European Union in Montenegro
Major General Dieter Heidecker, Commander of EUFOR Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina
David McAllister, German Member of the European Parliament, standing Rapporteur on Serbia
Borko Stefanović, Head of the Democratic Party parliamentary group in the Serbian Parliament, former Serbian representative during the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations
Teuta Sahatqija, Chairwoman of Committee for European Integration of the Assembly of Republic of Kosovo
Majlinda Bregu, Chairwoman of European Integration Committee of the Parliament of Albania
Branislav Borenović, Chairman of the Committee for European Integration of National Assembly of the Republika Srpska
Christian Danielsson, Director General for Enlargement at the European Commission
Johannes Hahn, European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations
Eduard Kukan, Slovakian Member of European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia
Cristian Dan Preda, Romanian Member of the European Parliament, standing Rapporteur on Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aymeric Chauprade, French Member of the European Parliament
Jozo Radoš, Croatian Member of the European Parliament
Andrey Kovatchev, Bulgarian Member of the European Parliament and European Parliament Questor
Jean-Eric Paquet, Director for Western Balkans in the Directorate General for Enlargement
Aida Ćorović, NGO activist and member of Serbian Parliament
Mladen Ivanić, Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jurriaan Kraak, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands to Bosnia and Herzegovina
James Ker-Lindsay, London School of Economics and Political Science and LSE's Research on South Eastern Europe research unit,
Josip Juratović, SPD member of the Bundestag
Angelina Eichhorst, Director - Western Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey in the European External Action Service
Hannes Swoboda, Austrian social democratic politician, former President of S&D Group
Axel Dittmann, Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany to Republic of Serbia
Gunther Krichbaum, CDU member of the Bundestag, Chairman of Committee for European Affairs
Notable contributing op-eds include:
Igor Vidović, Minister of Economic relations and Regional cooperation of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ivan D. Leković, Head of Mission of Montenegro to the European Union
Titus Corlățean, Romanian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Duško Lopandić, Head of Mission of Serbia to the European Union
Knut Fleckenstein, German Member of the European Parliament, standing Rapporteur on Albania
Ulrike Lunacek, Vice President of the European Parliament, Austrian Member of the European Parliament, standing Rapporteur on Kosovo
Bekim Çollaku, Kosovar Minister of European Integration
Nikola Vuljanić, Member of Croatian Parliament, former Croatian Member of the European Parliament, former standing Rapporteur on Albania
Charles Tannock, British Member of the European Parliament, standing Rapporteur on Montenegro
Daniel Mondekar, Member of Croatian Parliament, Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the Croatian Parliament
Aleksandar Andrija Pejović, Chief Negotiator for negotiations over Montenegro’s accession to the European Union
Tanja Fajon, Slovenian Member of the European Parliament
Sir Robert Cooper, British diplomat and adviser, former Special Adviser at the European Commission, former EU mediator during the Belgrade-Pristina negotiations
Dejan Jović, Professor of International Relations at University of Zagreb, 2010-2014 Chief Political Analyst in the Office of the President of Croatia
Brankica Janković, Serbian Commissioner for Protection of Equality
Anneliese Dodds, British Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee
Marko Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija of the Government of Serbia
Ditmir Bushati, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Albania
Lubomír Zaorálek, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Czech Republic
Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Transport
Miroslav Lajčák, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia
