Month: March 2026

Constitutional courts across Southeast Europe are currently navigating what can only be described as an existential dilemma. More than three decades after the initial democratic transitions, these institutions find themselves defending the rule of law against systematic threats like state capture, attacks on judicial independence, and coordinated delegitimization campaigns. These are not merely hypothetical risks … →

The EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans was introduced in 2023 as a complementary enlargement instrument designed to foster economic convergence and social development alongside the broader Europeanisation process. What distinguishes this instrument, however, is not merely its economic ambition but its method – modelled on the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the Growth Plan … →