Kossev: Belgrade Security Forum Day One
The Belgrade Security Forum, an annual event discussing foreign affairs and security policy in the Balkans and Europe began yesterday. The first panel outside of the academic events was titled “Balkans 2025” and it was hosted by Hedvig Morvai, the Executive Director of the European Fund for the Balkans, Vladimir Medjak, Vice President of the European Movement in Serbia, Naim Rashiti, the Executive Director of the Balkans Policy Research Group and Robert Cooper, Council Member of the European Council for Foreign Relations. The speakers discussed the futility of the EU approach to the region and ineffectiveness of the reform process, but some also recognised a historic moment in Belgrade – Pristina relations stating that it is the time to make a “courageous decisions”.