15.06.2020

DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE OF EMERGENCY - Responses to the Corona Crisis in the Western Balkans

While the anti-Corona measures are being relaxed in most countries, five countries of the region are preparing for elections. Tensions in the political debate, in the society and in some cases also between the countries of the region are rising.

The Corona virus crisis is in a way a mirror held up to each country revealing its strengths and weaknesses as well as its state of democracy. 

Today the third edition in the Democracy and the State of Emergency series is published by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) Dialogue Southeast Europe office in Sarajevo.
The reports cover the situation of “Democracy and the State of Emergency” in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia.

DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE OF EMERGENCY
Easing Measures and Rising Tensions in the Struggle with the Corona Crisis in the Western Balkans, Croatia and Slovenia http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/belgrad/16286.pdf

As the corona pandemic and responses to it in the region unfold, we will continue to monitor the development. This is the third in a series of reports which sets out to monitor effects of the corona crisis management on institutions, political and civil rights, parties, civil society, as well as external factors. More Analysis will follow on July 13.

The other two analysis can be found in the links below:

- Responses to the Corona Crisis in the Western Balkans, Croatia and Slovenia: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/belgrad/16119.pdf

- Political Battles Emerging out of the Corona Crisis in the Balkans, Croatia and Slovenia:http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/belgrad/16213.pdf 

 

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