April 30, 2009 - The Institute of Economic and Social Studies UNIVERSUM of Pristina, Kosovo, organised, in the period of 27 to 29 April 2009, the International Conference "Balkans and Kosovo: Economy and Politics", devoted mainly to the analysis of the political fate of this part of the South-East Europe in the last 50 years as well as the prospects of this region to get integrated into the European Union.
The conference agenda covered a large number of issues, starting from the analysis of different socialist experiences and the soviet influence in the region, the end of the cold war and its consequencies, including the dissolution of some socialist states and the foreign intervention in the region, the assertion of new tendencies of political and economc construction, where there is a prevailing orientation and efforts for rapprochement towards the European and Euro-Atlantic structures, mainly NATO and European Union. Consequently, there were outlined the great expectations and even a strong impatience of the states in the region concerning their rapid future accession to the EU as a model of political, economic, social and institutional construction, doubled by a certain anxiety that the European Union might apply now different standards as against those applied in the case of the states belonging to the last wave of EU enlargement.
The Conference included also two panels of students belonging to the Department of political sciences and international relations, University of New York Tirana, under the leadership of their professor, dr. Nancy Kwang Johnson.
The representative of Paneuropa Foundation presented a contribution on "The Challenges of the European Integration for a Transition Sociaty. The Case of Romania". He also visited the Institute and delivered a lecture about the capital markets (main concepts, institutions, actors, financial instruments and mechanisms).
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