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Beyond the Wall: “The state of of the former Yugoslavia”
The end of the year 2009 was marked by a series of good news concerning Serbia’s European perspective. In this speech pronounced at the Belgrade Conference in December 2009, Pierre Mirel (Director, DG Enlargement) goes through the latest updates from the negotiations between the EU and the former Yugoslav countries. He also outlines the principal challenges that stand in the way of these countries’ advancement towards EU accession.
Pierre Mirel (Director, DG Enlargement) goes through the latest updates from the negotiations between the EU and the former Yugoslav countries. He also outlines the principal challenges that stand in the way of these countries’ advancement towards EU accession.
A symbol of union, the Fall of the Berlin Wall does not indeed hold the same meaning for all Europeans: the rupture of the Cold War order took Yugoslavia in its wake; and the images from Berlin inversely invoke those from Sarajevo. Contra to the great tide of aggregation begun in 1989 between the East and West of Europe, the decade of the 90s was a time of dislocation in iron and blood for the Yugoslav populations.
In order to examine all these questions, Notre Europe and Kulturni Front (a Belgrade-based cultural NGO) invited political leaders, academics, public intellectuals and journalists from all across Europe to gather in Belgrade (Giuliano Amato, Jacques Rupnik, Pierre Mirel, Ivan Vujacic, Vesna Goldsworthy, Chris Hann, Ivan Colovic, Pierre Hassner, etc.) .
These two days of far reaching debates were complemented by four evenings of culture, art and enjoyment: film screenings with movie director Adela Peeva and actors Zana Marjanovic (Snijeg/Snow) and Dimitrije Vojnov (Tito and Me); public readings by writers Muharem Bazdulj, Vesna Goldsworthy and Igor Stiks; and the opening of a photography exhibition entitled “The European Parliament – Future archive” by Martin Kollar (Agence VU’).
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