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A Little Balkans Schengen Area?

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By Franz-Lothar Altmann* Improved cooperation in the Balkans is an ever repeated demand voiced from outside, the EU in particular, but also from the countries concerned. At least three major basic institutions have been formed to initiate, push and alleviate regional cooperation in the Balkans: the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP) and CEFTA, the Central European Free Trade Area, which de facto –after the EU-accession of the Central European countries: Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Slovenia in 2004 and of Romania and Bulgaria in 2007, as well as of Croatia in 2013 – has become…

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