Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Bernard Élise
    L'Union européenne et la république de Serbie – Relations et perspectives d'adhésion
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 547, avril ,  2011 ,  239-246
    After a decade spent banished from the international community and another one dedicated to introducing market economy and establihing a democratic state of law, the Republic of Serbia has at last declared itself candidate for the European Union membership. Our contribution covers those twenty years of relationships between Belgrade and Brussels, in order to clarify the possible membership of Serbia, currently a "potential candidate" for the EU. That relationship could not be more specific and deserves specific attention. Indeed, mainly seeking to maintain the Serbian Montenegrin state, the EU's actual sole purpose is to allow a partition of the two republics in a speciic and pacified legal framework. The membership of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was not possible. Following that successful cooperation between the Serbian and Montenegrin parties with the EU in 2002, Serbia, now a sovereign state internationally recognised as such, is now considered as a "potential candidate" for the EU, in spite of the difficulties it had and still has to address.
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