New chaos in the Balkans: what role left for the EU?

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Mark Leonard talks with the director of ECFR's office in Sofia, Vessela Tcherneva and the director of ECFR's Wider Europe programme, Fredrik Wesslau about the crisis in Macedonia and the bigger picture of political stagnation and chaos in the Balkans, at a time when accession to the EU is losing its credibility in the region.

The podcast was recorded on 5th May 2017.

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Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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