“Mini-Schengen” as an opportunity for new regional economic integration

Rapaić, Stevan

doi:10.2298/medjp2003566r

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“…According to the World Bank estimates, the initiative promises the free movement of goods and citizens as well as equal access to the labour market, where participating countries will save up to USD 3.2 billion (2.71 billion euros) every year (Brezar 2021). Also, the EU and the international community support the "Open Balkans" because it contributes to the stabilization of the Western Balkans region, which enables a "common European perspective" (Rapaić 2020).…”

Section: Trade Exchange Between the Countries Of The Former Sfrymentioning

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Foreign Trade Commodity Exchange Between the Countries of the Former SFRY

Filipović¹,

Ignjatović²

2023

The Review of International Affairs

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This paper aims to determine the effects of the transition on mutual trade between the countries of the former Yugoslavia. The research will be based on a qualitative and descriptive analysis of representative databases of the six countries mentioned for the time period after the disintegration of the SFRY. Economic reforms and the trade liberalisation process started even within the SFRY, but the reforms did not yield the desired results. After the disintegration of the SFRY, all countries independently defined the transition process and chose the path of European integration. In the first phase of the transition, all countries experienced recession and hyperinflation and a high foreign trade deficit due to trade liberalisation. The second phase was characterised by regulatory reform and institution building, but this process did not proceed at the same speed in all countries. After 2000, Slovenia was the only one with a higher export level as a percentage of GDP compared to imports (68.2%), and the other countries lagged significantly behind. When Slovenia and Croatia became EU members, they increased their foreign trade exchange with the EU. Other countries of the former Yugoslavia developed their mutual trade, primarily due to the CEFTA Agreement. By signing the agreement, all countries achieved export growth as a percentage of GDP, and the highest values of this indicator were recorded in North Macedonia (49.6%) and Serbia (40.8%). Within the CEFTA group, Serbia is the largest exporter and importer by value (its most important partner is Bosnia and Herzegovina). If we consider all the countries of the former SFRY, the largest exporter and importer is Slovenia, and its largest foreign trade partner is Croatia.

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Section: Trade Exchange Between the Countries Of The Former Sfrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Foreign Trade Commodity Exchange Between the Countries of the Former SFRY

Filipović¹,

Ignjatović²

2023

The Review of International Affairs

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The Open Balkan initiative: A step forward towards European integration or running on empty?

Kulo¹,

Novikau

2023

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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COVID-19 Responses and the European Border Regime in Croatia and Serbia: Spectacularizing Borders and Sovereignties

Hameršak,

Mitrović

2023

Studia Środkowoeuropejskie I Bałkanistyczne

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This article focuses on multiple bordering practices introduced in the context of the initial COVID -19 responses in Croatia and Serbia. These practices, often focused on the imposition of mobility control, were differently framed, executed and challenged in these two contexts and demonstrated a long-term restructuring of the European border regime at the gates of the EU . The paper outlines and contextualizes constant interplay and mutual stimulation of movement suppression and movement resilience in response to the new virus, blurring and sharpening borders, as seen from these two states at the political and geographical peripheries of Europe. Croatia and Serbia employed spectacularization and invisibilization of movement control, which steadily fostered the further compartmentalization of the population in both countries but with notable differences, especially regarding the control over unwanted migration toward the EU . In the period under discussion, borders were activated, imposed and challenged, exposing the changeability of relations between the EU border regime and the sovereign-nation states which comprise it. Different positions of Serbia and Croatia in the EU border regime also led to differences with regard to movement control, bordering, encampment and the repression exhibited toward people on the move. Old and new typologies of movement repression were tested and employed within the COVID -19 crisis framework, resulting in the further compartmentalization of societies and exclusions

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“Mini-Schengen” as an opportunity for new regional economic integration

Cited by 3 publications

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Foreign Trade Commodity Exchange Between the Countries of the Former SFRY

Foreign Trade Commodity Exchange Between the Countries of the Former SFRY

The Open Balkan initiative: A step forward towards European integration or running on empty?

COVID-19 Responses and the European Border Regime in Croatia and Serbia: Spectacularizing Borders and Sovereignties

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