In leaders with close ties to Russia within the EU and in its the same line, the EU should also find new and more immediate vicinity has and continues to challenge the effective ways to communicate about the steps of the Union’s democratic foundation and geopolitical strategy. [...] However, paradoxically, by armouring Dodik’s secessionist moves that threaten Bosnia and Herzegovina’s territorial integrity, Orbán has contributed to creating the biggest political crisis in the country since the end of the war in 1995.76 The spread of Orbán’s ideological model In the current geopolitical context, the existence of threatens the continuity of the EU’s autocratic regimes in the Bal. [...] Serbia said no in the region,79 and has strengthened its relationship with to sanctions against the Kremlin,84 and its alignment Balkan autocrats, taking advantage of stagnation in the with the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy has enlargement dossier and the weakening of the credibility dropped from 64% in 2020 to 45% in 2022.85 Furthermore, of the EU membership perspective. [...] The EU should has proven problematic for the European Union, as it streamline the communication channels with civic has bolstered illiberalism in EU aspiring countries and actors in the Western Balkans and make engagement circumvented the centrality of democratic criteria in the more regular and less dependent on the will of the EU accession process. [...] position from the EU on the democratic conditions for Making financial assistance conditional on the membership can serve as a tool of political pressure in implementation of fundamental reforms, the logic the hands of civil society and other democratic forces behind the recently announced Growth Plan for the in the aspiring countries to hold their governments to Western Balkans,90 is also the rig.
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