Slow progress in the EU's enlargement policy

Adelheid Wölfl takes a look at the negative "reports" the EU delivered on the Balkan states. "Certain Western Balkan states received pretty critical reports from the European Commission. ... Macedonia, Serbia and Bosnia are paralysed by the crisis surrounding Kosovo's unresolved status, because in these countries ethnic criteria still play a key role in the development of political identity and the Kosovo debate is only intensifying this process of ethnicisation. As a result reforms are moving at a very slow pace. Only Croatia has been able to free itself of this post-war complex, and even there the situation of minorities is poor and the past is still being prettified."

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