How do External Actors Interfere in the Political Affairs of the Western Balkans EU Candidate Countries?

This episode is produced by the REUNIR Horizon Europe Project. Host Madalina Dobrescu welcomes Florian Bieber, professor of Southeast European History and Politics and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He is also the coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG). They discuss one of REUNIR’s working papers on political threats posed by external actors in the EU’s candidate countries, focusing on the strategies used by external actors to interfere in the political affairs of the candidate countries in the Western Balkans.