1. Tailor-made laws in the Western Balkans
- Author:
- Gjergji Vurmo
- Publication Date:
- 05-2020
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
- Abstract:
- This CEPS Policy Insight takes a lively rhetorical approach to showing how state capture in the Western Balkans has been ignored since the launch of the region’s EU accession process, despite the many examples highlighted by civil society and independent media. It argues that while the EU first acknowledged the clear signs of state capture in an official document in 2016, Western Balkan political elites had already built powerful networks of corrupt interests around them. Not only that, they had already reached the highest point of state capture – tailor-made laws.
- Topic:
- Corruption, Law, European Union, and State Capture
- Political Geography:
- Europe and Balkans