Breakfast Discussion “Generation Waiting? Gen Z, Democratic Mobilization, and the Future of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans”

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Disengaged? Hardly. In Serbia, the largest wave of student led protests in decades has reshaped domestic politics. Students will contest the upcoming parliamentary elections with a list of their own. At the same time, EU enlargement has regained geopolitical momentum. Yet the region presents an uneven picture. Albania and Montenegro are making unprecedented progress toward accession, while Serbia faces profound political uncertainty. Across the region, institutional weakness, social polarization, and growing geopolitical competition shape domestic politics. They also affect the credibility of the European project. A new generation has come of age amid these developments. Generation Z did not grow up with the wars of the 1990s. Instead, it grew up with prolonged enlarge…

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