Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group

The 8th podcast episode of Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks is all about the recent repeated local and municipal elections in Serbia.
BiEPAG's Member Tena Prelec discusses the topic from different aspects with two experts that have followed the situation on the ground - Tamara Branković, Deputy Programme Director at the Serbian NGO CRTA and Aleksandar Ivković, Journalist at European Western Balkans and Serbia Elects project.

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The 7th episode of our BiEPAG's podcast "Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks" is all about the analysis of the elections in North Macedonia 
BiEPAG's Coordinator Florian Bieber is hosting the discussion on the recent presidential and parliamentary elections North Macedonia with Simonida Kacarska,Director of the European Policy Institute (EPI) - Skopje / Member of the EFB Steering Committee and Lura Pollozhani, Researcher at the University of Graz / BiEPAG Member.

Listen to their analysis of the results and the prospects for the future developments and power games.
#izboriMK #избори2024 #elections2024

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The last episode for 2023 of the BiEPAG's podcast Seriously Balkans - The BiEPAG Talks focuses on:
The results of the Serbian parliamentary, local, and provincial elections
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests: Tara Tepavac, Researcher at Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, and Nikola Burazer, Programme Director at Centre for Contemporary Politics and Executive Editor at European Western Balkans
Focus on the BiEPAG policy brief Beyond Stabilitocracy. Unveiling the Rise of Autocracy in the Western Balkans
with Damir Kapidzic, Marika Djolai and Marko Kmezic, BiEPAG Members and authors of the brief
Check the brief at the following link.

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Every winter the same? Air pollution in the cities of the Western Balkans
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests: Gorjan Jovanovski, EarthCare.ai - North Macedonia and Denis Žiško, Aarhus Centre - BiH
 
Every winter we have the same picture – heating, traffic, heavy industry and coal fueled power plants are having harmful effects and causing increased air pollution, which is directly connected with many diseases, health problems and a reason for thousands of premature deaths. The winter season across the Western Balkans is all about the bad air quality and listing the capitals of the region among the most polluted cities in the world.
Green Transition in the Western Balkans and the Role of External Actors
Host: Tena Prelec
Guests: BiEPAG Members Dimitar Bechev, Nikos Tzifakis, Marika Djolai, Donika Emini and Vujo Ilic.
 
The Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group conducted a comprehensive study on the geopolitics of the green energy transition in the Western Balkans. The study is based on desk research, several detailed case studies and an opinion poll conducted between March and April 2023 in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. BiEPAG Members and experts that were involved in this research project are discussing the main findings on the Green Energy Transition in the Western Balkans and the role of external actors.


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The fourth episode of BiEPAG Podcast is on #Ukraine. BiEPAG's Coordinator Florian Bieber and BiEPAG's Member Damir Kapidžić are hosting important interlocutors on this subject:
Ukrainian Perspectives on the Enlargement and Synergies with the Western Balkans
Host: Florian Bieber
Guests: Ivan Nagornyak, Deputy Director of the Government Office for Coordination on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration
Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
Maria Mezentseva, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration into the European Union, Parliament of Ukraine
What does the War in Ukraine means for the Western Balkans?
Host: Damir Kapidžić
Guests: Jelena Džankić, Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory and SEE Director for the Robert Schuman Centre’s Global Governance Programme 
Veronika Anghel, Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Studies 
(Check the publication https://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/75524 A Year Later: War in Ukraine and Western Balkan (Geo)Politics. Edited by Jelena Džankić, Simonida Kacarska, and Soeren Keil; published by the European University Institute in 2023).

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Hosts: Florian Bieber and Tena Prelec, BiEPAG
 
Part 1
The position of Serbs in Northern Kosovo in the light of tensions between Serbia and Kosovo
Guests: Marina Vulović (SWP) and Milica Andrić Rakić (New Social Initiative)
 
Part 2
20 years since the Thessaloniki promise
Guests: Nikola Dimitrov and Milica Delević 

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