Russia in trying in different places, not only in the Balkans but also in Europe, to show the weakness and incompetence, primarily of the EU, says Ivan Vejvoda.

"The weakening and slowing down of the EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans opens up space for countries like Russia, and not only for them, but in different ways for both China and Turkey, and even for the Arab Emirates - the space for certain political and economic, and I would say religious activities," Vejvoda said.

The former vice president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, currently heading the "Future Europe" program at the Institute for Social Sciences in Vienna, said that all these actors, "the so-called third actors in the region, know where the region of the Western Balkans belongs - it is the last un integrated part of the core of European geography."

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