Regional cooperation between the countries of the Western Balkans and free trade between this region and the EU is thought to create development opportunities for this region. However, in a region with political challenges and historical problems such as the Western Balkans, it is problematic to achieve these goals as a result of political and historical obstacles. To strengthen regional cooperation, the EU supported the Balkan region with Bilateral Free Trade Agreements, Generalized Trade Preferences, CEFTA 2006 and finally, SAAs. This paper through the Gravity model provides evidence that in the Western Balkans, free trade agreements have had a greater impact on law reform than economic sustainability and trade promotion. Also, unless political and historical disputes are resolved, especially between Kosovo and Serbia, none of the trade agreements can deepen regional cooperation in this ethnically troubled region. So, these are some of the obstacles that hinder the development opportunities of the Western Balkans.
Nowadays, the use of social media has grown worldwide, and this has resulted in increased influence on international relations. Other researches show that this form of communication is increasing, so the research goal is to determine the extent of social media impact on the development of international relations in the Western Balkan Countries. To achieve the results, it was conducted an online survey with experts and representatives of institutions, and through the questionnaire was evaluated the use of social networks, the effects of use, transparency and reliability. The collected data were analyzed carefully, and came to the conclusion that; respondents highly assess the impact of social media on international relations development in Western Balkan countries. The social media have achieved higher effect, also without the influence of international policy leaders, in some areas such as transparency.
The Republic of Kosovo is one of the newest states in the world. Separated from a former communist federation – Yugoslavia and occupied for over a decade by Serbia, it turned out to be free after a systematic destruction and with great consequences in all respects, including the environment. And of course, being a new state, made Republic of Kosovo to inherit many problems, which were very difficult to solve, while the environmental issues did not even come into the agenda ever to be discussed, which should not have been done as it was. In other words, having many major problems, the environmental issue as to the international community that has governed Kosovo for more than a decade, as well as for Kosovo's institutions itself, has never become an issue of importance to be discussed nor to be protected. Almost same happened in every country, which was under the international community protection, as for them it is the importance of security rather than environment protection in a country, where they are serving and far from their home country. Even after some positive developments in Kosovo's environmental legislation, by adopting the law on environmental protection, by creating a state agency for environmental protection, by creating environmental directorates in municipalities, etc., which developments and steps failed to become successful, because they lacked their implementation in practice, and cases like this were also in Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, etc.. ..
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