

How Can the EU Support the Western Balkan Candidate Countries against Socioeconomic Threats?
The REUNIR Podcast by REUNIR Horizon Europe Project
S2 · E4
Dec 19, 2025
37:00
Episode notes
This episode is produced by the REUNIR Horizon Europe Project. Host Madalina Dobrescu welcomes Jelena Pejić Nikić, senior research at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and a PhD candidate at the University of Belgrade. They discuss the socioeconomic threats posed by external actors in the EU's candidate countries in the Western Balkans, and how the EU can help strengthen socioeconomic resilience in these countries.
Keywords
politics
international relations
european union
eu
eu foreign policy
western balkans
balkans
serbia
bosnia and herzegovina
albania
kosovo
montenegro
north macedonia
foreign interference
socioeconomic resilience
external interference