‘MINI SCHENGEN’: A BALKAN BREAKTHROUGH OR POLITICAL STUNT?

Can a plan to replicate the EU’s freedom of movement in the Balkans transform the region — or is it all about political posturing?
A week before the European Union dashed the EU hopes of Albania and North Macedonia back in October, the prime ministers of those countries met with Serbia’s president and unveiled a regional initiative that was quickly dubbed the “mini Schengen”.